Chapter 38November 15, 2016
It took a full day to select the twelve citizens who would serve as the jury in the case of Kevin Walters v. Consolidated Energy. Our jury consists of a social worker, a newspaper editor, a small-business owner, a city engineer, a homemaker, a retail store employee, a receiving dock supervisor, a painter, an investment adviser, a tech industry programmer, and two retired workers, one from the hospitality industry and the other from the financial industry. We have five women and seven men.
Juries are, in every sense, our neighbors. They are the people walking around CVS and Costco and filling their cars at the gas station. They are the people who sell you insurance and the people who buy the car you are selling. They are a cross-section of every type of backgro
