Several years ago I was detailed to be one of the members of the panel that heard all general courts martial for the area served by Mannheim, Germany. I wound up going over there around twice a month for a wide variety of cases. The detail lasted a year and a half, so I got a lot of experience in "jury duty". We heard a lot of drug cases, rape, two murder trails, etc. One that I fondly remember was the trial of one soldier on assault and battery charges for beating up another soldier in the barracks at Baumholder Training Area. It was a pretty open-and-shut case, until they brought out the last witness... the victim. After meeting him, we went back into the jury room and came out about an hour later with an acquittal. Some folks just get what they had coming to them ;-)

Courts martial are different from jury trials, in that we as panelists had the opportunity to ask questions not posed by any of the attorneys, by writing them down on a form and submitting them to the judge, who would then ask the question from the bench. And there are no hung juries, we went back after hearing all testimony and got one vote on each charge... it took 2/3rds of the panel voting "guilty" in order to convict, any vote less than 2/3rds was an acquittal unless we were able to consider a lesser charge for the same offense.

It did cure me of wanting to sit on any more juries; a standard answer in voir dire now is that "I'm not sitting here this long in order to turn some rascal loose."