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This is going to do my head in when I do my bit in May, I am an active person who can't stand hanging around doing nothing. I can see myself getting so frustrated that I will be off and get fined £1000 or whatever it is.
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Yet another wasted day today. We arrived at 10.30am. There were quite a few people milling about today, barristers, police, ordinary people who were probably friends and relatives of the people involved in the trial. We were quite hopeful that something was finally about to happen. We sat in the jury room chatting and doing crosswords all morning, lunch time came at 1pm and nothing at all had happened. :( We were told to go for lunch and come back at 2.15pm. At 2.45pm the usher came in and would you believe it? The defendant had just pleaded guilty to his charge, there would be no trial and we were free to go home. No trials start on a Friday so we have been told to return for our second week of jury service on Monday at 10.30am. The usher apologised to us for a week's worth of our time being wasted. I would hate to have his job, none of this is his fault but I bet he gets so much abuse and anger directed at him out of sheer frustration. When we had our first wasted day on Monday I never dreamt that we would get to the end of the week and still be in the same position, incarcerated in that jury room every day, never setting foot in a court room. :mad: I hope to God that next week is not a repeat of this week. If so, I fear for my sanity. :( |
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Bloody hell Lilly, what a nightmare :(
How long does this go on for?? |
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It is a nightmare. One that I hope to wake up from very soon. I was called up for 2 weeks. I've just done week one so next week will be my last week.........forever, I hope. |
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Sounds like a complete nightmare Lilly hope I never get called
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Re the guilty pleas, it appears that barristers do everything possible to get defendants to plead guilty before the trial. This way the barristers still get their wages but have less work to do. They don't have to read through reams of evidence and go to the trouble of cross examining people. For the defendant, pleading guilty before the trial starts rather than being found guilty by a jury gets them a lesser sentence. The barristers do all kinds of bargaining with them. Very often the barristers have a very good idea that their client will plead guilty but until the defendant has officially stood in the dock and said the word 'guilty' they cannot dismiss the people waiting in the jury room in case he suddenly changes his mind at the last minute then the case would go to trial and the jury would be needed. |
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Like everthing else it seems to be all about money.
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Id hate to do jury service . Ive known a couple of folk do it and they say same as lily . the amount of hanging around is dreadful, with exception to one who was in some big trial and he said it were pretty awesome.
Good luck next week though lily. |
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What a nightmare, I'd be tearing my hair out too.
I guess I was really lucky. In the two weeks I did it, whilst in London, I had one trial each week, both trials lasting exactly a week. I found it stressful, abut certainly not boring, which I'm sure I would have done, if I'd been twiddling my thumbs for all that time. I hope next week is much more interesting for you.:) |
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