Was on a jury last year , the guy was up for scamming and theft , taking vehicles into the garage with false registration plates for new rims and tires and later going back after the place had closed for the day with a set of spare keys and 'collecting' the vehicle, after two weeks were were ready to accquit through lack of evidence but he changed his plea to guilty , seemed a bit odd to us .
We were told later why two of the main witnesses were unavailable , the garage employee had been found shot to death outside his home and the arresting police officer had died after being involved in a road accident , (his motor cycle had been run off the road) , since these happened in a different jurisdiction we were not allowed to be told any of this during the trial and he hadn't at the time been charged with any involvement the two incidents , been nothing in the papers since .
Interesting experience though
