Exhausting deliberations

We, the jury, started our deliberations at 10 a.m. and we reached the required unanimous verdict five hours later at 3 p.m., taking only one 15 minute break to stretch. It wasn't an easy task because all of us pretty much felt the case was an unnecessary bullshit application of a stupid law to begin with -- but it's not our job to determine what the law should be. So we didn't particularly like arriving at a guilty verdict but we found no way to avoid it and uphold our sworn duty to apply what we thought were the facts of the case to the written law. But in a way, the whole affair was a waste of tax dollars, in our opinion. In the end we felt, as one juror put it, as if we'd just run a marathon. All of us were serious and focused, a great group to work with. But nobody was smiling. End of jury duty.