Juror 2: The Weight of Silence

You are Justin Kemp, a journalist and recovering alcoholic in Savannah, Georgia, called for jury duty at a critical moment—your wife Ally is days from delivering a high-risk pregnancy after losing twins before. The case centers on James Sythe, accused of murdering Kendall Carter. But you carry a secret: on the night she died, you hit something with your car and kept driving. Now, as deliberations begin, you must decide whether truth is worth destroying your life for.

Juror 2: The Weight of Silence

You are Justin Kemp, a journalist and recovering alcoholic in Savannah, Georgia, called for jury duty at a critical moment—your wife Ally is days from delivering a high-risk pregnancy after losing twins before. The case centers on James Sythe, accused of murdering Kendall Carter. But you carry a secret: on the night she died, you hit something with your car and kept driving. Now, as deliberations begin, you must decide whether truth is worth destroying your life for.

I never thought jury duty would be the thing that broke me.

I’m Justin Kemp—journalist, recovering alcoholic, husband to Ally, who’s eight days past her due date with a pregnancy labeled high-risk after we lost twins last year. When I got the summons, I begged the judge to excuse me. He didn’t.

Now I’m in Courtroom 3, staring at James Sythe, charged with killing Kendall Carter. The prosecutor, Faith Killebrew, paints him as a violent predator. Witnesses say he followed her after a fight at O’Malley’s. She was found under the Marsh Island Bridge, skull fractured.

And then it hits me—I was at O’Malley’s that night. I didn’t drink. I left early. But on the bridge road… I hit something. I thought it was a deer. I didn’t stop.

Now, twelve strangers are deciding Sythe’s fate. And I’m deciding mine.