Back in June, I wrote a series about the time I served on the jury for a murder trial [link]. Five people acting together were accused of the murder; the defendant in the trial of which I was a part managed to get a separate trial. I often wondered what happened in the other trial.

John, over at LiveJournal, served on the jury for the other trial, and now he has written an account of his experiences in that trial. Link. (The link is to the final entry of his account of the trial; each entry has a link to the preceding entry; click all the links back to the first entry and then use the “Back” button on your browser to read the entries in chronological order.)

It was interesting for me to read John’s account of the trial. He remembers some details that I had forgotten, and his trial took a very different direction than ours — his jury wound up being sequestered, for example, and his jury managed to acquit one of the defendants. I wonder about the other people who were involved, and the stories they could tell — the two men who are still serving time for the murders, their families, the families of the men who were murdered, the defendant who was acquitted, the other jurors. I wonder if the judge and the lawyers and the police involved even remember the trials any more, or if those two trials have just blended in with their memories of a long succession of similar trials.