I've been on four juries and foreman of one, but I only remember three of the four right now. These were California municipal courts. The first one was a civil case of a widow suing a bunch of investors, all attorneys, who were trying to cheat her out of part of the money they owed her. We voted 11-1 for the widow (yay!) The second one was a criminal case. A young man had been accused of multiple crimes including assaulting a police officer, aggravated assault of a police officer, and two more charges. The jury voted unanimously to acquit because the incident occurred late one night when the young man was walking home through an open high school (public right-of-way goes through the school grounds of this school) and he stopped to pee in the bushes in the darkest part of the high school. It was stipulated that the nearest light was 300 feet away, and in fact, both sides agreed on every point of this story. Then from out of the darkness came a voice, "What are you doing?" and he said, "I'm peeing; leave me alone." He then tried to walk away when someone grabbed his backpack from behind, and he shrugged the strap back onto his shoulder. That was the action that he was being charged for--not public urination, which he might have been guilty of (but maybe not because he was not really in public in the pitch-black night behind some bushes). So this person, who never identified himself as a police officer and who was purposely not wearing any reflective patches or a metal badge, tackled him from behind, took him down, and ground his face into the side of the cement. There were some extremely bloody pictures of this young man in the police station. The officer's partner, who arrived later, said that he knew it was his partner on top of the young man because he saw his silhouette, proving that there was not enough light to know that this was a police officer. We voted 12-0 to acquit. My theory was the the police were throwing everything at him to taint his probably lawsuit against that officer and the force. The third time was a comedy of errors, but that's its own story. :-)