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I did Jury Service a few months ago, and ended up on two one-week trials which both ended by Thursday. Each of them was a "he said, she said" where there was little-to-no contemporaneous other evidence, so in both cases we found the defendent Not Guilty within less than an hour. In one of the...

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Fair point - I was on two relatively lightweight cases which both delivered Not Guilty verdicts due to lack of evidence (in fact on one count we were instructed by the Judge to do so).

You choose between yourselves. In my recent Jury Service, it was the juror already in chair 1 (i.e. called first in the random pick of jurors) who just did it - it's hardly a huge responsibility.