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Safavian Jury: Verdicts Are Hard, But Snitch Notes Are Easy

The jury in the David Safavian trial can’t decide if he’s guilty or innocent, but they are good at getting on each other’s nerves.

In notes from jurors to the judge, one complains that Juror Number Three has admitted to having outside conversations about the trial.

Juror Number Three, meanwhile, complains to the judge that other jurors are making annoying cell phone calls during deliberations.

Settling both scores in a single stroke, the judge dismissed Juror Number Three.

Read the notes here. (Thanks to Reader DK.)

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