Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Nov. 15, 2022
A Juror’s Ominous Task
Decades later, one juror reckons with her decision to convict
Carol Menaker
Menaker is a writer and author of The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning with Racial Injustice (She Writes Press, April 2023, ISBN: 978-1-64742-460-2, $17.95).
It should come as no surprise that the jury deliberations in the trial of Nicolas Cruz for the 2018 murders of 17 high school students at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School were “tense” and “heated,” and that at least one member of the jury felt “threatened” when she took a contrarian position. It shows the true nature of the beast.
In 1976, at the age of 24, I too served on a jury in a high-profile, emotionally charged case. The tr...
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