Have you ever served on a jury? I have once and experienced voir dire twice

[Aristus]

30. I served on a jury a long time ago.

I've been summoned several times since, but have been excused because of my work at the clinic.

Our guy was up on multiple drug charges, including possession, possession with intent, and possession of a legend drug without a prescription.

We got hung up on two of the charges, but it was my argument that swayed the rest of the jurors to convict on the legend drug charge.

The defense council kept repeating that the burden of proof is on the prosecution. But I told the rest of the jury that, burden of proof or not, if I was a defense attorney with a client charge with possession of a legend drug without a prescription, the first thing I would do is get on the phone to a doctor and see if the defendant had a prescription. He never produced one at trial, which meant there wasn't one. The very fact that the charge was on the docket is proof of the defendant's guilt.

We voted to convict.