Thanks Cyclefree, but may I ask whether you were able to judge the extent to which the jury understood proceedings. My suspicion, based on purely anecdotal evidence of course, is that juries often do… (View Post)

It sounds like a fiction but it's true. I was incredibly impressed when she told me about it. The defendant was of Colombian origin. He had an interpreter throughout the trial and made much of his in… (View Post)

Mrs PtP kind of was. She was the only dissenting juror in a drugs trial but by sheer persistence, logic and force of personality she managed to convince the others that the defendant was guilty. They… (View Post)

It's a fair point Feersum, even if you do stretch it to extremes. I'm often dismayed that knowing something about a subject can disqualify you from jury membership on a related topic. Many fraud tria… (View Post)

Why do you need so many houses, Big G? (View Post)