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.
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Everyone involved is getting paid except them. I think they should be compensated at the same rate as a sheriff’s deputy.
Captain Howdy.
“’Who killed you?’ The jurors who used a Ouija board to find a murderer guilty”
Makes about as much sense as many other jury decisions.
“Most people just want to get the hell out and get back to work/family”
I was in a criminal jury pool one time and after asking me two or three questions the defense kicked me out. I had knowledge of the medical terminology involved in the case.
“The glass spelled, “Shot”.
My glass keeps calling for another shot too.
I was going along the lines of the evil one on the other side of the board, father of lies and such. Hillary’s mentor. Satan.
An ouija board in every courtroom and a cap in every ass.
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