28: The Jury Is On Drugs, Your Honor

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do you call a 6-week period in which you and a handful of very recent acquaintances get drunk every day at lunch, sleep through the afternoons, sell weed to each other, smoke weed with each other, and whip out a few bags of cocaine to snort when the time feels right?For a group of twelve people in Florida in 1987, they would call it jury duty. That’s right. Since 1987, jury misconduct stories only got crazier and crazier...including one where a jury convicted a man of double homicide by breaking out a Ouija board and asking the victims' ghosts. Yep. Reb tops off a martini and hosts a seance in Tanner v. United States (1987).***0:00 - Intro2:17 - Facts of Tanner v. United States12:39 - Trial (Coke, Booze, and Court)23:00 - Rule 606(b) and SCOTUS Majority Opinion40:53 - SCOTUS Dissenting Opinion54:11 - Juror misconduct still haunts us56:19 - SCOTUS heard our complaints and ignored them58:59 - Remedies for juror misconduct1:01:10 - Case after case after case (Delusional, sleeping, drunk, racist jurors)1:10:00 - The Ouija Board Jury1:19:35 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices