Ep. 08 - "A Jury in Jail", Deep dive about race and jury selection, Early DNA as evidence
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Jurors begin to get cabin fever as they are sequestered during the O.J. trial. As they begin to more restless a chess match between Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran begins to dismiss as many jurors as possible that are perceived not to be sympathetic to their side. And what would be a modern bombshell in a court case today as high-tech evidence of a defendant's guilt, DNA, is dismissed as unreliable.
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