Hollywood's Creative License?
....Like the fact that jury visit requests must come from the prosecution or the defense team--not the jury itself.
Or the fact that while the jury may make observations while they are there, they can NOT do "experiments" to test evidence or theories. Given that they are not allowed to talk during the visit, all the claims of "but they would then be able to see if you could hear the sounds of a struggle in DM's room or BF's room or X talking or K talking or the dog..." are moot. The most they could possibly assess is whether you could hear footsteps of people who aren't trying to be sneaky--and that's only if the jury is allowed to split up and some of them be on the 1st floor or 2nd floor level while some are on the 3rd floor or X's room.
And while they can walk through and get a more visceral image of the layout and spacing, they can't time themselves walking through rapidly while pretending to do the murders to see if they were possible in the proposed time frame.
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@gremlin444 Thanks for your post.
As sometimes happens re various points of LEGAL PROCEDURE, movies, tv dramas, etc give viewers an unrealistic, warped idea of Jury Views, such as allowing jury members at the crime scene to play Sherlock Holmes, taking measurements, running experiments --- like your examples of re-enacting the crime, or checking sounds transmitted from one floor to another --- or developing other analyses of timing of events. (Run-on sentence? whew

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When authorizing a jury view of crime scene, Idaho trial judge gives the standardized, state-wide instruction below.
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"ICJI 306 VIEW OF THE PREMISES PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS
"INSTRUCTION NO. _______
"It may be helpful for you to see the place involved in this case. I have appointed Mr./Mrs./Ms. _______ to take you there. While at that place, you are not to make any measurements, conduct any tests or make any demonstrations."
"Your observations during this view of the place involved are not evidence in this case, and you are not to take such observations into consideration in arriving at your verdict."
"This view is only for the purpose of assisting you in understanding the evidence presented in court."
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^ 306 View Of The Premises-Preliminary Instructions
isc.idaho.gov