The Random Selection of Jury Duty in Massachusetts

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In Massachusetts, a jury of your peers is a random selection of people who live in your county. The goal is to send a representative and diverse group of people to every court on the days that they need jurors. If you're called for jury duty, you'll be shown a video that explains what's expected of you. Women couldn't serve on juries until 1950.

“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.

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