I sometimes worry that when I'm finally selected to serve on a jury, I will be responsible for some kind of chaos during the deliberations; I don't think reading Monster did anything to change my thinking (which I consider a positive).
I already waste most of my social capital explaining to people not necessarily that they are wrong, but that they aren't quite right, yet. It's just not a huge stretch to imagine me explaining to someone, a fellow juror, a stranger, that the prosecution has to prove guilt, is it? And yet, given all the wrongful convictions that are overturned every year, I know something isn't working correctly in the backrooms of the judicial process - I fear discovering firsthand why this is the case.
