Another one from Steve

This bloke in America was on trial for murder. A conviction would mean the death sentence. His best mate spotted a chap on the jury who looked a bit like a leftie hippie liberal, so he thought he'd have a go at bribing him.

He sought the juror out secretly, and offered him ten thousand dollars if he could get the conviction changed to manslaughter.

A few weeks later the trial finished and the verdict was manslaughter. The convicted man's friend met up with the juror, gave him the ten grand, thanked him profusely and asked him how he'd done it.

"Well, it wasn't easy," he said. "I did persuade the other eleven to convict him of manslaughter in the end as you asked, even though the rest of them wanted to let him go..."