I don’t think it helps the fact it keeps being fractured in terms of when and how long they sit. I can imagine a day or half a day being lost just catching with where they were at the last time they were deliberating.
It could be that they are stuck on one or two and are leaving them until the end to see of people's opinions change after having examined the ones that appear easier to them. The other cases they may well be going through in very great detail which will inevitably be taking time.
Yeah, deflated and a bit guilty about it!
On the first one, was this something that a witness said in court? I'm wondering otherwise how the judge would know.
Is it usual for jurors to be cited so far in advance in England? In Scotland it's 4 to 6 (max) weeks.
This reminds me of when I was trying to learn the clarinet from a book. It was my dad's clarinet and book. I was away at Teachers College at the time, going home on alternate weekends. And yes, every time I got back to it, it took me nearly all weekend to catch up to where I was. After a year or so, I finally gave up at lesson 4! Dad made it to lesson 9 before he too gave up!
???Hands up everyone here who is actually a reporter on this case?!
When the jury sends a question, if it's to do with the evidence, the judge discusses it with the prosecution and the defence and they make their cases for how they want it answered. The judge is the arbiter of disputes between them, if any, and then the jury is called for and the judge gives them their answer.
That is certainly eye opening to learn that.
It is stunning they haven’t asked more questions since the deliberations started really.
The iPads will probably be all the electronic evidence such as -
Yes, that follows everything I had heard.
