Federal courts can grant jurors access to counseling if they've been on a high-stress trial. This is how Judge O'Toole was able to get the jurors free counseling after the Boston bombing trial. Massachusetts had tried to make something like this happen at the state level.
“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors.