On any jury there will be those individuals with whom we feel most comfortable and those with whom we feel more distant. So it is in every group of people. You can be sure that the mirror is at work here. If we feel distant to Mrs. Smith on the jury, it is very likely that she has the same feeling toward us. And we can very easily alienate her, because we are not going to speak as readily to her as to the other jurors who have shown their openness toward us. But if we do not talk specifically to each juror, the juror who has been by-passed will feel left out. And that juror will resent us. We
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