
A Trial by Jury
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D. Graham Burnett
Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of his life.
Burnett begins with the story of the trial: a body with multiple stab wounds found in a New York apartment, intimations of cross-dressing, male prostitution, mistaken identity. And then, the unexpected drama: Burnett finds himself appointed the foreman, with the responsibility of leading the increasingly frenetic deliberations within the black box of the jury room. Soon he is sequestered—which is to say marooned—with eleven others, a group of people who view their task, and often one another, with palpable distaste. Among his colleagues: a vacuum-cleaner repairman cum urban missionary, a young actress, and a man apparently floundering in a borderland between real life and daytime television. As Burnett steers the contentious politics of their temporary no-exit society toward the verdict, he undergoes an unexpected awakening. Having been plucked from his cozy nest in the world of books and ideas and then plunged into the netherworld of lurid crime, he learns the limits of what intellect alone can accomplish in the real world. Above all, Burnett discovers firsthand the terrifying ultimate power of the state and the agonies of being asked to do justice within the rigid dictates of the law.
Part true crime, part political treatise, part contemplation of right, wrong, and the power of words, A Trial by Jury is a mesmerizing narrative of one man’s encounter with crime and punishment, American style. It profoundly affects one’s sense of the privileges—and the perils—of citizenship.
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"The heavy machine is what Burnett calls the criminal justice system; his close encounter with its well-greased wheels and levers is the subject of his immensely readable new book."--Jabari Asim, Washington Post
"By turns humorous and dramatic, "A Trial by Jury" speeds along; it can be devoured in a single sitting. Burnett is a graceful, economical writer, with a sharp eye for detail and a nuanced feel for character. He never loses his sense of the ridiculous . . . An irresistible book."--Barry Gewen, The New York Times Book Review
"The author, a historian of science, also proves himself an excellent student of human nature in this first-person account of serving as the jury foreman in a New York City murder trial. Though the entire case, from opening gavel to final decision, takes only a few weeks, Burnett manages to paint vivid portraits of his fellow-jurors and examine the knottier issues of class, race, and gender that complicate the justice system's search for objective truth. Until now, the standard-bearer for jury-room dynamics has been "Twelve Angry Men"; Burnett's narrative, while significantly more understated, is no less illuminating."--The New Yorker
Been there
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Real court room drama..
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defense lawyer must read
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Every lawyer and attorney should read this
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thoughtful account
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sloooooooooooow
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Burnett’s richly described account opens the closed doors of the jury room to present a facet of society that is surprisingly inaccessible and opaque, given its obvious importance.
The narrator is an academic used to living the life of the mind, professionally obliged to raise hard questions, and not to answer them. But as the foreman of a jury in a gruesome murder trial, he finds himself embroiled in a discussion in which answers cannot be endlessly deferred; a place where decisions of immense weight must be made once and for all.
Burnett’s detailed account of the trial is accompanied by an internal monologue in which we hear him grappling with abstractions—capital “R” Reason, the state, the law, the judicial system, the way we place justice in the hands of ordinary citizens—that take on strange and serious new meanings when instantiated in the high-stakes world of a murder trial.
The whole thing combines the suspense of a law procedural with the provocations of a deep and probing philosophical inquiry. I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.
And a final note: the performance was well-paced and entertaining. All around excellent.
Gripping and Thought-Provoking!
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is it over yet?
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