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Originally Posted by Azure
I would assumed there were only 12 jurors to begin with, but I guess they can exclude at random up to the end to get down to 12.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Actually seems like a decent idea to have 18 sit through the trial, do a raffle to remove 6, and then go with the 12 remaining for the final verdict.
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The OJ Simpson case started with 24 but still came close to running out of alternates as 10 of them were dismissed during the course of the trial.