Jury trials
This should scare anyone charged with a crime, or is teh victim of a crime. The Herald reports:
The Court of Appeal has talked of jurors consulting a ouija board during a trial and leaving deliberations to have sex.
Another juror who left the jury room screaming that they would not go back was grabbed and drawn back into the room, according to three judges.
The sex breaks for jurors is quite novel. Does the Ministry of Justice supply the sex also, or do jurors have to find their own?
The use of the ouija board was the fault of the Judge with his instructions. He told the jury not to discuss the case with any living person. So obviously they concluded seeking guidance from dead people was fine.
And physically restraining a screaming juror who wants to leave is obviously just modelled on the Catholic method of selecting a Pope.
So there’s really nothing to worry about at all.
I do now have a better understanding though of how David Bain was found not guilty!