# Juror Simpson — Poetry character guide

> Juror Simpson in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

One of the twelve sworn to weigh a fellow citizen's fate, he embodies the ordinary man pressed into the machinery of judgment and consequence.

## In the story

### [Contempt of Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/contempt-of-court)

Got drunk and made a spectacle, failing to serve as a proper peer.

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