Once got a courtroom cleared with my response to a question while in the jury box. I merely mentioned that I had read a book called "Mean Justice," written by a New York Times reporter, about a prosecutorial misconduct in a murder case right there in Bakersfield. Judge sent out all the jurors so I could be questioned privately, defendant was on trial for murder in a drug deal gone bad, and I looked at him, detailing the events of the book and the weak rebuttal written by the DA's office to the book and the defendent was practically jumping out of his chair to make sure I was on the jury. Judge dismissed me, guy was found guilty and when quoted afterward in the paper basically stole all the "this is the truth" details from me that I outlined when I was questioned. Someone emailed me who got stuck on the jury and said I was so lucky to get dismissed.
It's a good book, by the way. Prosecutors are not supposed to be "win at all costs" guys. They are to be agents of justice.
https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Ju...eywords=Mean+Justice