‘I would have voted guilty’
Lisa Christensen, an alternate juror in the Derek Chauvin murder case, admitted this week that she was worried about people showing up at her door if they weren’t happy with the verdict handed down.
Christensen spoke with KARE-TV, where she recalled her experience as an alternate juror in the nation’s most-talked about murder case.
She told the station that her heart “broke a little” when the judge told her she would serve only as an alternate juror, as she had “mixed feelings” about being on the trial.
“There was a question on the questionnaire about [wanting to be on the jury] and I put I did not know,” she said. “The reason, at that time, was I did not know what the outcome was going to be, so I felt like either way, you are going to disappoint one group or the other. I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again, and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict.”
This comes as no surprise.