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Trial aborted after jurors play Sudoku
Judge Peter Zahra of District Court in Sydney released the jury after the forewoman admitted that she and four other jurors had spent a large amount of their time during the trial playing the popular game, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday.
Defense lawyers Adam Morison and Michael Coroneos filed to have the jury discharged after the two men accused in the trial said they saw the jury forewoman playing the game during one of the defendants' testimony. The forewoman admitted to spending about half of her time in the jury box playing the game.
Morison said it was "extraordinary that 105 witnesses, including 20 police, had been in the witness box and not seen what was happening."
Zahra verbally reprimanded the Sudoku players, but provincial laws do not allow for the prosecution of inattentive jurors.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/11/2008
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06-14-2008 06:25
NERICE, Cameroon wrote:
Irresponsible
These jurors, i believe, lack professional ethics. I suggest they shoud be sanctioned severely and even sent for adequate training. They have people's lives in their hands and they seem not be realise this.
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