News from Australia of a trial of drug dealers being abandoned because the jurors were doing Sudoku puzzles to keep from dozing off made me smile, not least because I once thought about doing a Sudoku puzzle but dozed off while reading the rules.
The case serves as a reminder of the lengths jurors in complex court cases sometimes have to go to in order to stave off death by boredom. In one case in the 1990s the jury were so baffled by the legal arguments they consulted a Ouija boards in order to determine guilt (I’ll let someone else do the obvious joke)
It’s hardly in the spirit of justice though is it?
And mention of spirits segues nicely into the question of rat arsed juries. But that’s another post.
TODAY WE COMMENTED ON:
The exploitation of AIDS It is revealed at last that the whole scare about an AIDS in the heterosexual population was nothing but a scam cooked up by the political correctness police in chahoots with Big Pharma.
Ireland Votes on Federalisation by Stealth
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