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Posted on 05/10/2018 8:00:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The report quoted the youngest member of the jury, 24-year-old Adrian, who said four jurors had tried to consult the spirits of the dead while locked overnight in Brighton's Old Ship Hotel.
As the other jurors slept, the small group sat on the floor around a crude Ouija board they had made from a piece of paper and a hotel room wine glass.
They each put a finger on top of the glass and asked a spirit to guide the glass over letters of the alphabet and the words 'yes' or 'no'.
One juror, Ray, took charge of addressing the spirit, which identified itself via the glass as Harry Fuller.
Ray asked, "Who killed you?". The glass spelled out, "Stephen Young done it".
He said, "How?". The glass spelled, "Shot".
As the jurors discussed what they should do, the glass spelled out: "Vote guilty tomorrow".
By the end of the seance, some of the jurors were crying. A few jurors would later say they felt they had gone too far.
The group retired to their rooms and agreed not to tell the others what they had done. Just a few weeks later, their actions were causing controversy around the world.
Graham Hill still remembers his disbelief when his neighbour passed him the newspaper front page over the garden fence.
"Probably your initial thought would be, well it'll prove that it's a lot of old nonsense," he said.
The headline was just the beginning of a case which would become one of the most high-profile examples of juror misbehaviour in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
we really should have thought of this technique much earlier.
Appeals Court squashed the original conviction - he was retried soon after and found guilty...
The source is questionable.
A Jury of your peers.. Unbelievable.
The Jury system is broken and jurors/employers need to be more fairly compensated so they can treat jury service like a real job.
Most people just want to get the hell out and get back to work/family
It’s ABC, which means the story is likely faked.
They must have used a “shot” glass...
Robert Mueller is VERY excited about this new prosecutorial tool.
“A Jury of your peers.. Unbelievable.”
They thought it said “a jury of your seers.” Silly them.
Good point! It’s all because of poor jury instruction.
Funny, if true. And Ouiji uses bad grammar. Shouldn’t it have been something to the effect “this guy did it” rather than “this guy done it”? Whomever was “guiding” his/her wine glass to spell out the guilty verdict was ignorant and a lout.
ABC=Always Bull Crap
A Magic 8-Ball would have been better.
Seth Rich? Donald Young? Other victims of Arkancide?
The ghost has ghastly grammar.
Anything to keep from having to think...Losers!
The source is questionable.
"How?" The glass spelled, "Shot".
Where? In the study?
I knew Ouija boards could write poetry ("The Changing Light at Sandover," [transcribed] by James Merrill, National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983), but didn't know they played "Clue."
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