“The last day, I was still trying to turn them around and to defend myself as a person. They wasted time talking about me instead of talking about the case. They asked, ‘Can you hold a job? Do you have any friends? Why did you get a divorce?’ When I tried to get close to explaining why I thought Calvin should be voted innocent, they would start talking over me. I said [to the forewoman], ‘Will you please get people to talk one at a time?’ And she said, ‘I stopped listening days ago.’ The forewoman was doing all these doodles
Grant Barrett