...AND THE VERDICT IS...

After three days of listening to testimony and lawyers fight it out, we finally got to deliberate over the evidence on Friday afternoon. The trial was about an auto accident where one driver had pulled in front of the other and in doing so injured his back and foot. The one driver had already been found to be at fault and our job was to determine the monetary damages that were due to the one injured. We came to the conclusion that the defense did a terrible job and that the injuries were the result of the accident. We were now stuck with how do we put a dollar amount on a persons life. How do you put a dollar amount on a person's hobbies and free time that he can no longer do like he did? How much money is pain worth? Well, after two and a half hours of deliberations we settled on...Get this...$300,000. Yeah, you read that right. The lawyers were asking for $375,000, but I and a few others couldn't go that high. It sounds like a lot, which it is, but once you remove the lawyers 30%+ - (around $100,000) the medical bills ($125,000) that leaves only about $75,000 for all the injuries that will last the rest of his life. It's a crazy process that, at times, was extremly boring, but it was pretty cool to be a part of. That's it for now, I just thought I'd catch you up.