"I continued my personal life as if I was not there to judge a trial," is how Kimberly Ellis explained herself to the New York Daily News. "It was my first time as a juror, and I was naive."

Ellis was sitting on a robbery trial in Queens last year and posted Facebook updates with details about the trial, despite the judge's orders not to. "Everything about this process is inefficient," she wrote on September 17. "I'm trying to remain positive and centered, but, truthfully, I'm dying from boredom."

Once deliberations began, she kept posting, writing: "God help me. The other jurors don't trust the police and want to outright dismiss the confessions as well as the majority of the rest of the evidence. Tomorrow is going to be a very difficult day."

One of Ellis' Facebook friends, a former prosecutor, reported her postings. She was confronted by Queens Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis about the posts on September 30.

"I suppose I forget it's so public and it's Facebook and it's something that I use a lot," she said, according to a transcript acquired by the Daily News. "And I’m pretty quiet in my day-to-day dealings with people, so it’s just a way for me to, you know, express myself... I wasn't thinking clearly. I apologize."

The apology didn't help. Once Ellis was taken off the jury, there were 11 left and no alternates, and the case was declared a mistrial.

Margulis held Ellis in contempt of court, saying her actions cost taxpayers thousands of dollars. "And it's not that she was not aware," he added. He advised her to retain an attorney.

"I feel terrible," Ellis told the Daily News. "I never meant to hurt anyone. I wasted a lot of people's time and money, and I deeply regret what I did."

She also said she's afraid of losing her job at JPMorgan Chase, where she has worked for 19 years, due to the jury incident. "My ex-husband is disabled and I raise my two children," she said. "I'm afraid this will impact them. I'm very scared."