bobbymkii
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It's also crazy to me that they take all the steps you've mentioned to not influence the trial. But at the same time the defendant(s) sit in front of the jury in a glass panelled dock surrounded by prison guards like some sort of dangerous caged animal and are only able to communicate with their legal counsel by passing scribbled notes to them via a court usher while proceedings are taking place.It's not a lack of transparency. You can go sit in the public gallery. It's just reporting restrictions while the trial is ongoing. Once the verdict is reached and the reporting cannot have any influence on the trial, then all the salacious details will come out.
This is the only trial I have actually been able to go and sit in the public gallery in person. In order to watch this trial you have to queue up outside the court building and then in the corridoor for hours and hope there's room because the public gallery only has 3 rows of seats and you're not allowed to sit in the front row, and you can barely see the witness stand from any of the seats. And there's a long list of everyday items that you're not allowed to take into the court building, such as mobile phones, and disposable vapes. And barely any court documents or filings are publicly available to view by ordinary proles like us.
That's not a justice system that is transparent, that's a justice system that is terrified of a citizenry that might be remotely well-informed if they ever find themselves accused of a crime by the Crown!