Morning, Sleuth peeps. The discussion about the insanity plea is very interesting this morning, and also gives me headaches I have a general juror-rules type question that may or may not be related.
I was watching the movie, A Time to Kill, last night. It was a fictional story; the defendant in the movie was pleading temporary insanity after killing the men who raped and tortured his daughter. There was discussion in the movie about the legal basis of an insanity plea. Would it have been improper for the jurors in the Hemy Neuman trial to watch this movie last night; would they have had to report it if they did?
Also, if the Neuman jurors saw or read stories about the judge losing his mother, did they have to report that... could it deemed to be prejudicial in any way?
Just wondering (because my headache isn't quite big enough).
I was watching the movie, A Time to Kill, last night. It was a fictional story; the defendant in the movie was pleading temporary insanity after killing the men who raped and tortured his daughter. There was discussion in the movie about the legal basis of an insanity plea. Would it have been improper for the jurors in the Hemy Neuman trial to watch this movie last night; would they have had to report it if they did?
Also, if the Neuman jurors saw or read stories about the judge losing his mother, did they have to report that... could it deemed to be prejudicial in any way?
Just wondering (because my headache isn't quite big enough).