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I hardly say he did his best. From a previous groklaw article [1]: "The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions." The jury then doesn't follow all of the instructions. Sounds to me like a jury that just wants to get out as quick as possible, not do their best.

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390...

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Juries just wanting to get out as quickly as possible is probably the norm. At least with a criminal case there is some tangible moral incentive to do a good job. A bunch of large companies quibbling over basic shapes probably seems like a rather ridiculous waste of time even if billions of dollars hang in the balance.

My opinion is the jury did a poor job. Even ignoring what the foreman has been saying the media; they had hundreds of questions to decide and took mere minutes on each of them. But the system is really the problem. How much unpaid time out of these people's lives are we willing to expect on such trivial and seemingly illogical crap?

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