I don't know that I can really do it justice, and it's probably a whole lot less interesting in writing. The whole thing just didn't feel very professional, and I guess the lawyers were probably very inexperienced.

The defense attorney was like a poor caricature of a Hollywood role. I was getting My Cousin Vinny vibes but maybe that's just because he was obviously Italian. He was trying to be super clever, objecting to everything (incorrectly I guess, because it started pissing off the judge). Made lots of dramatic emotional appeals to the jury. It was a simple DUI but he injected this heavy drama into the case about a rape. Not going to go into details about that but it was all super sketchy and questionably relevant, it felt like he was just doing it to up the case's intrigue.

The state attorney just came off as inept. He had nothing to contribute and wasn't at all prepared for this elaborate rape mystery bit that his case wasn't about at all. He was really just there to tell us that driving drunk is illegal, which he could be very tedious about. The judge had to cut him off multiple times for rambling pointlessly.

But the clown show they put on all felt pretty irrelevant in the end. You sit down with a bunch of people with no legal training and make a largely uninformed legal decision with large implications for someone. It was kind of surreal in how casual and arbitrary that bit was, and how little instruction we were given. We basically agreed that the story was probably bullshit, but we were sympathetic and didn't want to convict. Different people in that court though and it absolutely goes a different way.