ID: "a scary amount of power we put in our citizens"

Here's an Idaho blogger who made it past voir dire and on to the jury - pity, that:

Jury Duty

It was an attempted murder... The public defender in no way tried to prove he wasn't guilty... Made me never want to be in the position of being defended by a public defender. This being Idaho we were all for sending the guy up the river except this one older lady that was in tears because she kept personalizing the guy like he was her own kid. Eventually the 11 of us cowed her into voting him guilty...