I hear ya Gem,
I felt bad for Juice too, because Eli making him steal that brick is what caused this domino effect for him. Although I thought it was a smart play for Lincoln Potter, because it was a great way to establish the present crimes clause in the RICO case. Juice killing Miles was wrong, and he felt the full weight of that mistake. So much that he was willing to kill himself for what he had done.
The only reason that he played ball with Potter is because he didn't want the club to be destroyed by federal law. Potter wanted the Irish Kings, not SOA. Juice knew that if Clay, Jax, Chibs, Happy, etc were at the meeting, they would do time but that they eventually would get out of prison. He wanted them to rest inside, knowing that the Reaper wasn't burned to the ground.
But luckily that wasn't the case.
I never could figure out how someone like Juice wound up in the club. I figured he was a graduate of Cal Tech or UCLA, but also had a passion for bikes. After meeting friends of friends, I guess he became a hang-around (male version of Crow Eater lol) He was a whiz at tech stuff, and loved pot, tats, bikes, and video games. I was hoping by the show's end that he would be taking Red Woody to online streaming...
The scene between him and Jax in the third to last episode, gives me goosebumps every time. He was willing to keep feeding the lie to Jax, until he learned that Gemma's actions had caused harm to a child. When Jax told him that Abel had cut himself, Juice couldn't take it anymore, and confessed the truth. He did so knowing what the consequences would be, but he didn't care. He was tired, and he just wanted it to be over.
He died with what little honor he had left, to keep the club's relationship with AB intact.
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