AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
That’s if the juror will participate in discussions. Often they won’t. I was on a jury hung by exactly that kind of juror once. Eleven votes for conviction, one for acquittal. The hold out refused to discuss the case at all. Her comment was “I have my opinion and Im not going to discuss it or change it” I talked the foreperson into sending a note to the judge who interviewed the juror alone in chambers and immediately declared a mistrial. The judge made a statement on the record that he wasn’t going to waste the Jury’s, the attorney’s and the court’s time on an intransigent juror who refused to cooperate in the deliberation process. When I was on the Criminal Grand Jury a few years later the same prosecutor was running it and I asked him about the results of the retrial. He said a guilty verdict in ten minutes of deliberation.Well, sure.
That's why I would ask:
"What are your 'reasonable doubts' that Rittenhouse shot these people in self-defense?"
And then attack those doubts.
Easy enough to do.