Good morning all :seeya:
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3. Many of the jurors express they now have PTSD.... I never even considered that this may happen to them. Some said that they still have nightmares, flashbacks, and even psychical pain since the trial.
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Snoopy1, I am curious. What did they attribute their PTSD to--the evidence of the murder (photos etc) or the decision for DP. tia
From the book:
"Their story is filled with twists and turns that not even a Hollywood scriptwriter could have created. Three of their colleagues on the panel were dismissed, including a foreman who was a doctor and a lawyer. Those who remained became prisoners of the judicial system they were trying to serve.
It was as if they were criminals themselves. A bailiff constantly monitored their movements in the jury box to see if they were taking too many notes or too few, or whether they were dozing. During deliberations, they were driven to and from the courthouse in a sheriff's van filled with shackles for prisoners. They lived the kind of judicial version of solitary confinement. They were unable to speak to anyone about the trial, even family,"
They also state that the photos and the details of the case where hard to handle. The fact that Laci was the All American girl next door, she was pregnant, she disappeared Christmas Eve, the "seductive" girlfriend, Amber Fry, her husband being the offender, the exhaustion from the deliberations, etc.
