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Called up for Jury duty. 2nd time for me so I know there’s going to be plenty of waiting round followed by more waiting round. Need the help of the Singletrack community to assist in the fight against death by boredom.
So let’s have your recommendations for books (preferably Autobiography’s), Podcasts and music playlists to kill the time.
Thanks in advance.
Anything by the Secret Barrister....
Binge watch a series of Death in Paradise before you go in for some top tips on how to spot a murderer.
Malazan book of the dead
Twelve Angry Men (film)
You could see if you can get a pair of these.
Guess the idiot who will not go with a majority verdict so they can stay off work longer ?
Pop out for a sandwich a lunchtime and stand in the queue next to the defendant (and let them explain to you politely why you shouldn’t get them locked up)
Research the defendant on the internet to see what a nice chap they have been in the past
Those are all things that happened whilst doing kangaroo crown court
For a podcast bad people on BBC sounds.
All the nasty criminals!
Guess the idiot who will not go with a majority verdict so they can stay off work longer ?
Guess the idiots that will go with guilty or not guilty, whichever gets them home quicker?
Guess the idiots that will go with guilty or not guilty, whichever gets them home quicker?
If only he had given is reasoning that would be fine and we could have all had a reasoned debate, but he just sat there for 1.5 days until early Friday afternoon and then just said ok !
Anything by the Secret Barrister….
Very much this, but I've also just finished Court Number One: A History Of The Old Bailey, by Thomas Grant and that's been really, really interesting. 🙂
Autobiographies:
Fist Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
War in a Stingbag by Charles Lamb
Ok, all three have an aviation and war theme but each are far from the gung ho stereotype.
a book I read in your situation ( first and only jury duty-so far)
Name of the rose by Umberto Eco dense enough to really need to concentrate but also something that you can put down and come back to.
Anything by the Secret Barrister….
Very much this,
I'm currently reading his Fake Law and his seething simmering rage is becoming contagious.
Guess the idiot who will not go with a majority verdict so they can stay off work longer ?
I'm confused - you think jurors should just conform to the loudest noise in the room so they can go home quicker? But I'm also wondering why if it was one person who disagreed it was holding the rest of you to ransom. Did you not offer the judge 11/12 in agreement?
Pop out for a sandwich a lunchtime and stand in the queue next to the defendant (and let them explain to you politely why you shouldn’t get them locked up)
I assume that this was immediately reported to the judge/jury minder, the jury discharged, you all got to go home early and the defendant was considered for contempt? Or did the juror(s) keep quiet for an easy life?
Research the defendant on the internet to see what a nice chap they have been in the past
Did the other jurors report this to the judge/jury minder?