Fourteen jurors heard all the evidence, but only 12 got to determine guilt and two were randomly dismissed as alternates. The jury had requested all 14 be allowed to decide Saretzky fate, but the judge refused, saying Canadian law doesn't allow more than 12 to decide the verdict.
"It's not right to treat people this way,'' the dismissed female juror yelled at Justice William Tilleman. "You have us come against our will and then show us the door. It's not right.''
"I've heard that from a number of jurors saying that in some ways (it) is barbaric — the feeling that I sat through months and months of this and am told through a lottery that I'm not the one to see this through.''
