Lootman wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:Thanks for the anecdote of your reluctant complicity in an injustice that must've been crushing to its victim. That's precisely the reason I wouldn't allow myself to be complicit in it.
So would you refuse to act as a juror? Or take the role and then vote to acquit regardless?
The idea of a trial by a jury of your peers is actually a liberal idea - that you should not be judged by professional/establishment judges but rather by ordinary people like you. So what would you replace the jury system with?
From XFool's answer I'd say - wait a week between the summing up and the verdict to give sufficient time for the permutations to work through then. Of course some may need 8 days... but I was somewhat disquieted by "an impatient judge pressing us for a verdict". One would hope that may have been grounds for an appeal.
Of course the current court system in the UK does not have that flexibility - its already years behind on getting cases to court as it is
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