24-03-2018, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Rhian
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Thats why I'm a bit concerned about my little chicken!She looks as young and green as she is too!
24-03-2018, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SallyS
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She will be with 11 other people, and doesn’t have to make a decision on her own.
And that's the whole point isn't it
That they are a good cross section of society
24-03-2018, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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Yes - I have done jury service - and found it very interesting - especially as I was elected foreman of the jury. It is a bit scary when you have to stand up and say guilty !
25-03-2018, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Rhian
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CrikeyI bet it was
Originally Posted by Omah
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Indeed it is ..... 
Absolutely EVERYONE in the courtroom is looking at you (
25-03-2018, 10:15 AM
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Mine was at the Old Baily in 1973. I remember that the prosecuting counsel (state funded) was very bright but the three defending counsels (legal aid) were clearly rather dim. In the end a deal was made and we were just instructed to give the appropriate verdicts. The members of the jury spent a lot of time out of the court while various things were being hammered out.In retrospect it was a curious experience.
25-03-2018, 02:00 PM
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I did it last year. They asked me first in April which was my busiest month in work and they deferred it to December my least busy month.It was an interesting drug case. He was guilty of both charges but the evidence in the first charge wasn't good enough.
It was 10-2 in the jury for about two hours before we reached a guilty verdict.
27-03-2018, 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Omah
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Indeed it is ..... My experience was mostly "enjoyable", but other jurors sat on cases of murder or rape, ugly and unpleasant, even emotionally upsetting .....
Sat on about 7 juries in that time...BUT
3 of them were about sexual abuses of young teen girls 2 by their Fathers and the last one that turn my guts was a rape of a 16 year old girl by an 55 year old man and the girls Mother helping him to rape her....he got ten years for the rape...she was also charge with rape and got 7 years.
The last one did upset me badly and my daughter remarked that I came home looking Ashen.
What sickened me more was the fact that after we had found these two guilty and the sentence was to be announced the defence or prosecution stated that the Judge should deferred because in two weeks time the girls brother was to stand trial for raping her as well.
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