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It's an incredibly difficult, complex and time consuming process to avoid Jury Service...
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It's an incredibly difficult, complex and time consuming process to avoid Jury Service...
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It's an incredibly difficult, complex and time consuming process to avoid Jury Service...
Could you not just claim you a racist, hate all religions etc... so someone would not get a fair trial
I just dont see how it works in real life though - a sole trader could easily lose business and get into massive debt because of jury service, cant be allowed, surely? Or even reps where i work, many of those get 50% of their salary paid through commission, if they are out for 6 months they lose that! Just seems really unfair!
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When I did jury service twice the forms had a tick box allowing you to “opt in” to being selected for cases likely to last longer than 2 weeks otherwise it was only the shorter ones you got listed for
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Could you not just claim you a racist, hate all religions etc... so someone would not get a fair trial
I just dont see how it works in real life though - a sole trader could easily lose business and get into massive debt because of jury service, cant be allowed, surely? Or even reps where i work, many of those get 50% of their salary paid through commission, if they are out for 6 months they lose that! Just seems really unfair!
I dropped a hint in my first "post" in this thread
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I was called aged 22 - ended up as foreman of the jury because nobody else wanted to be. Sat through 3 weeks of prima facie evidence that the accused was guilty & 10 minutes of mitigation that the perp had had a hard life.
Retired to the jury room where the two old biddies on the jury were minded to acquit on the basis of the mitigation, one that was of a mind he's-been-arrested-he-did-it and the rest would go along with the concensus.
4 days later (possibly the 4 longest days of my life) we finally reached a verdict. Filed back into court and started the process of delivering verdicts. Clerk asked if we'd reached a decision and I said "Yes, guilty" somewhat derailing the process because the charges hadn't been read
Charges duly read and guilty verdicts returned - sentence was passed and the perp's considerable previous was read out... We were all filing out when Big Vern from Viz's twin arrived to ask what happened. Someone told him he was sent down for 15 years and Vern says "<expletive> I'll have to wait for the <expletive> to get out to rub him out".
Would I do it again, sure thing. Not been asked in the intervening 28 years though
Retired to the jury room where the two old biddies on the jury were minded to acquit on the basis of the mitigation, one that was of a mind he's-been-arrested-he-did-it and the rest would go along with the concensus.
4 days later (possibly the 4 longest days of my life) we finally reached a verdict. Filed back into court and started the process of delivering verdicts. Clerk asked if we'd reached a decision and I said "Yes, guilty" somewhat derailing the process because the charges hadn't been read
Charges duly read and guilty verdicts returned - sentence was passed and the perp's considerable previous was read out... We were all filing out when Big Vern from Viz's twin arrived to ask what happened. Someone told him he was sent down for 15 years and Vern says "<expletive> I'll have to wait for the <expletive> to get out to rub him out".
Would I do it again, sure thing. Not been asked in the intervening 28 years though
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I have read a number of comments from various barristers who said that waiting on a jury to return and deliver a verdict is always nerve racking because it was absolutely impossible to predict what the jury would decide. That has to be worrying.
Presumably the barristers who have been present throughout a trial would know what was the correct verdict on the basis of the evidence put to the jury. If it is common for barristers to have concern about whether a jury will reach a correct decision then that throws grave doubts on the validity of the jury system.
Presumably the barristers who have been present throughout a trial would know what was the correct verdict on the basis of the evidence put to the jury. If it is common for barristers to have concern about whether a jury will reach a correct decision then that throws grave doubts on the validity of the jury system.