Do you suppose there's a reason jurors are acting up?
And for remembering... you don't want to know.
Now THERE’s a law I could get behind! :{)
Sat through a trial as a juror. Totuously boring. Both attorneys seemed to go out of their way to put the jury to sleep.
However, both the defense and the prosecution are trying to build a case, letting the jury know only what they want the jury to know. Jurors who get additional information via social media are disrupting the case-building efforts of both defense and prosecution.
I'm not sure whether that's good or bad. However, if they're watching their iPhones instead of listening to the testimony, that's bad.
Do you suppose there's a reason jurors are acting up?
Just state you are against illegals and that prosecutors only take cases they can win to trial. I have been blackballed from all jury service (followed me to a different state) for the last 10 years after I embarrassed a public defender in US District court.
So “Twelve Angry Men” would have ended differently, with Henry Fonda’s character getting hauled off to a cell for contempt and the kid on trial gets fried.
It would probably be better to person in lock up overnight and then destroy any record of it.
As far as I know there is no law authorizing a judge to instruct the jury on anything. The jury should be an independent entity, the third leg in the balance of power so to speak (judge, prosecution, jury).
California should fine everyone on the OJ jury
It should be jail time; ding dongs and their cell phones...
The Judge's instructions are not suggestions.
Having been called for jury duty a few times in the last ten years, it's obvious that the average IQ is under 70, and a few always make it to the final jurors and alternates.
Some even speak and understand English.
Politics is always a major cause of all the evils that destroy society.
Of Course. what is most important when weighed against "political correctness" and good intentions?
Justice can go suck...