User blog comment:SimBrotherCo/Was It Fair to Not Let Corinne on the Jury?/@comment-4472922-20130411184408

I think it has something to do with when pre-Jurors leave.

In theory, if they were planning on a merge at 12, then they would have planned to fly the pre-Jurors back home after Episode 8.

However, with Shamar's med-evac and then Laura's boot in the same episode, the merged happened after Episode 7 instead of 8.

This could mean that when Corinne was booted in Episode 8, she joined the pre-Jurors who were already there and then they flew out and Jury started.