I was on jury duty Monday in Collin County. Ended up on a 65-man panel for a murder trial. I was not picked, though, and kicked myself every morning this week when my alarm went off at 5am!
They sent us on break after the questioning so they could pick the jury. After a looong wait, the judge sat us all down and announced that she knew that "some of you have been googling the case". She went row by row and made everyone that had googled stand up and tell how much they had researched it. This added an hour. It felt like elementary school when someone did something wrong and everyone got punished for it. She made quite an example of them. 12-14 ppl ended up admitting it. The lawyers and the judge left the room for 10 minutes, then they selected the jury. I assume that means the lawyers had to change their selections.
Turns out there's mistrials happening all over the country because of jurists googling and they are considering a fine for it in the future. Anybody else run into this?
I sooo wanted to be on there! I was on a murder trial years ago and me and 2 other ppl hung the jury. The guy was innocent and they caught the real killer later.
They sent us on break after the questioning so they could pick the jury. After a looong wait, the judge sat us all down and announced that she knew that "some of you have been googling the case". She went row by row and made everyone that had googled stand up and tell how much they had researched it. This added an hour. It felt like elementary school when someone did something wrong and everyone got punished for it. She made quite an example of them. 12-14 ppl ended up admitting it. The lawyers and the judge left the room for 10 minutes, then they selected the jury. I assume that means the lawyers had to change their selections.
Turns out there's mistrials happening all over the country because of jurists googling and they are considering a fine for it in the future. Anybody else run into this?
I sooo wanted to be on there! I was on a murder trial years ago and me and 2 other ppl hung the jury. The guy was innocent and they caught the real killer later.