I was the foreman in a murder trial, and the experience, for me, was also inspiring and uplifting. There was only one bump in the road for us. Early on, people starting bringing up a hesitation of rendering a guilty verdict, for fear that the man would be put to death, and they didn&#x27;t know if they could do that. I don&#x27;t know about other districts, but we weren&#x27;t voting on the sentence. The judge would do that later. It was an easy argument to point out that this wasn&#x27;t under our purview, and people dropped that concern quickly.<p>We were done in 2 hours. It was a drug robbery; someone got shot and died. &quot;Felony murder&quot; makes it really clear: everyone involved is guilty. The statute made things very easy.<p>The thing that haunts me about my case is that, out of 3 people (the shooter and his 2 accomplices, who were to be tried together in a separate case), our guy produced the gun for the police. If anything, the case made me wonder why there isn&#x27;t tribal knowledge (unfortunate phrase wording, in this case) among inner-city, young, black men that YOU DO <i>NOT</i> DO THIS? It was open-and-shut, despite all the nonsense about a coerced confession and its subsequent retraction.