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Author: maxwellsilver

Jul 29th 2013 at 2:50:53 PM

Real Life: some jurors are very good at nobbling themselves - they don't need external pressure. There is the infamous case of a jury sent to a hotel overnight to consider their verdict, some of whom held a seance to guide their opinions (R v Young (Stephen) [1995] QB 324). When the authorites found out, they had to declare the trial void and allw an expensive complete retrial. Today, 28/07/13, British courts found a juror guilty of contempt and sent her to prison for two months for gross misbehaviour: before the trial was finished, she had entertained Facebook friends with an online blog about jury deliberations, and publicly expressed her opinion the defendant was guilty as Hell.  A juror in another case was discovered to have Googled for information about the offence, thus breaking the legal convention that the guilty person is tried ''only'' on the basis of the case presented in court. Another two month sentence there...

See [[http://www.docstoc.com/docs/24263826/r-v-young- here]] for the jury nobbled, arguably, by voices from beyond the veil.