Keith Morrison

Thomas Kemmon is assistant audio editor.

Keone Reed and Reese Washington are associate producers.

Susan Nall is senior producer.

Adam Gorfain is co-executive producer.

Liz Cole is executive producer.

And David Corvo is senior executive producer.

From NBC News Audio, Bryson Barnes is technical director, sound mixing by Bob Mallory.

Nina Bisbano is associate producer.

It's a ridiculous notion, really.

The idea that 12 adults, selected because a judge deemed them relatively honest and lawyers thought them sufficiently malleable, that they should decide someone's fate with a show of hands?

Bias and prejudice don't disappear when deliberations start.

Of course they don't.

Logic and reason don't always reign supreme.

In truth, many verdicts are little more than good faith guesses based on the evidence jurors are allowed to see.

But for the most part, it's a system that works.

if not always consistently.

It took more than 10 hours for the jury to decide the fates of Chris Latham and Wendy Moore.

We couldn't understand why some of them didn't feel the same way as the others felt.

In this episode, you'll hear from some of the jurors who rendered those verdicts.

Sounds like that might have been a debate.