Re: Trial by jury : Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:01 pm  

rumpelstiltskin wrote:

How droll Ms Mintballs. Wilful stupidity indeed!

Perhaps you should take a moment or several to try and understand that it is not the pigmentation of one's skin , rather the social/ cultural characteristics as well as ancestry, which contribute to ones ethnicity.

That aside, the composition of this Jury was 8 women and 4 men, and at least some of them appeared to have only the faintest grasp of what the Judge was saying. Which raises the very valid questions posed earlier.....is the present British Jury system adequate for the 21st Century, or could it be improved, or was this simply an unfortunate case of 12 extremely thick people?.

And could one qualifying improvement not be, that a basic understanding of the English language be a pre requisite before serving on a Jury?

Think you've hit the nail on the head with that breakdown. As I said earlier - in my experience of jury service one jury did not function properly because it had a few over-anxious women on it who were frightened of making a decision. Perhaps, the answer is male only jurors so the ladies don't need to worry their pretty little heads over matters other than shopping?

Re: Trial by jury : Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:31 pm  

I sat on jury duty myself last year and agree entirely with the comments made about some jurors. Without going into detail we had one juror who rather than deciding on the guilt on the accused based on the evidence wanted to decide what the charges should have been and decided that the court should have pursued a different charge and insisted on sending a note to the judge to this effect. the not suprising reply that came back was simply for the jury to decide if the accused was guilty of the charges heard and not to try and make the law. we then spent a day whilst she insisted she knew more about the law and what the accused should have bee n charged with than the judge CPS and police. she was nearly thrown out of the jury room window

Re: Trial by jury : Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:58 am  

Dally wrote:

Think you've hit the nail on the head with that breakdown. As I said earlier - in my experience of jury service one jury did not function properly because it had a few over-anxious women on it who were frightened of making a decision. Perhaps, the answer is male only jurors so the ladies don't need to worry their pretty little heads over matters other than shopping?

We now come someway to understanding the female mental fragility within the Dally household.

Re: Trial by jury : Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:01 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

There are a number of police who are as crooked as any criminal, and they are far more dangerous because they have the shield of being 'the law' and so, with it, have blinkered people like your magistrate friend on their side.

Persoanlly, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

Wasn't a friend, just a paying customer

Re: Trial by jury : Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:53 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

We now come someway to understanding the female mental fragility within the Dally household.

They don't call me Chris Huhne for nowt.

Re: Trial by jury : Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:32 am  

Dally wrote:

They don't call me Chris Huhne for nowt.

Are you a bully like he allegedly is?