If there is no victim, jurors can easily wonder if there was a crime.

The judge said his plan had been "tame and ordinary" but that Mr. Puccio's comment might make the jurors wonder whether they should be fearful of serving as Mr. Kelly's jurors.

She said jurors also wondered why prosecutors had not conducted tests to substantiate Mr. Catterson's assertion that carbon monoxide vented outside the door would still have been drawn into the air-conditioning system.

How many jurors wondered why that mother had not been indicted for, at minimum, gross neglect?

Judge Harkin, along with the two lawyers looking over his shoulder, and every juror in the room read the language carefully and wondered what in the world this weirdo had in mind.

In the meantime, the jurors who heard Mr. Tyler's case are wondering whether the legal system values the work they did.

If they had succeeded in running independent DNA tests but failed to clear Mr. Simpson, then jurors who knew of the tests might have wondered about the results.

And during breaks the two jurors often wondered if another galaxy existed beyond ours.

Several jurors wondered why Mrs. Odierno's sisters, who were usually present in the courtroom, were not called to testify.

Some jurors wonder whether lawyers should be barred from accepting cases on a contingent-fee basis, even though that would punish poor people who can't hire a competent lawyer any other way.