Letter: That’s not how juries work

In the past decade I have twice been a juror. Once for an alleged rape and second for counterfeiting. After hours and days of testimony and legal arguments, we jurors voted.Had state Rep. Phil Lyman, who was not in attendance, publicly chastised me for my guilty vote, and then suggested that I should have voted “innocent” based solely on reasoning that the perpetrator was of my same age, gender, race, political party or some other affinity, I would have concluded that he was not only