28: The Jury Is On Drugs, Your Honor

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do you call a 6-week period in which you and a handful of very recent acquaintances get drunk every day at lunch, sleep through the afternoons, sell weed to each other, smoke weed with each other, and whip out a few bags of cocaine to snort when the time feels right?

For a group of twelve people in Florida in 1987, they would call it jury duty. That’s right. Since 1987, jury misconduct stories only got crazier and crazier...including one where a jury convicted a man of double homicide by breaking out a Ouija board and asking the victims' ghosts. Yep.

Reb tops off a martini and hosts a seance in Tanner v. United States (1987).

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0:00 - Intro

2:17 - Facts of Tanner v. United States

12:39 - Trial (Coke, Booze, and Court)

23:00 - Rule 606(b) and SCOTUS Majority Opinion

40:53 - SCOTUS Dissenting Opinion

54:11 - Juror misconduct still haunts us

56:19 - SCOTUS heard our complaints and ignored them<3

58:59 - Remedies for juror misconduct

1:01:10 - Case after case after case (Delusional, sleeping, drunk, racist jurors)

1:10:00 - The Ouija Board Jury

1:19:35 - Reb's Rebuttal

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