Its so long ago now... and I don't even know if QLD allows a defendant, in a murder trial to choose whether he/she wants a Judge only trial or a Jury trial. Seems to me that if you get a jury trial its what verdict the jury comes down with is what it is. . Otherwise why bother with juries in any trial? What a monumental , colossal waste of money.
Why bother having all the paraphernalia of juries, the ballots, the security, all the stuff of juries if their verdicts are useless and dispensable. .. Why drag 12 people from their comfortable routines, to do one of the worst jobs of one's life , for very little compensation, for nothing? if all this can be done by 3 mysterious judges, who didn't even attend the trial.. . didn't see or hear any witnesses, didn't see or hear the defendant, didn't go into the jury room with the jurors..
what is the point?
Why bother having all the paraphernalia of juries, the ballots, the security, all the stuff of juries if their verdicts are useless and dispensable. .. Why drag 12 people from their comfortable routines, to do one of the worst jobs of one's life , for very little compensation, for nothing? if all this can be done by 3 mysterious judges, who didn't even attend the trial.. . didn't see or hear any witnesses, didn't see or hear the defendant, didn't go into the jury room with the jurors..
what is the point?