Archive for August 2002

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From The Register
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They think it’s all over
Well, they’re done with me — we reached a majority verdict at about 4.15pm, and were dismissed soon after. We actually got some verbal abuse as we left the court building, so the 12 of us toddled off to the pub afterwards. Hence me typing this whilst half-cut. Will probably re-do [...]

God only knows what Emma’s been doing to Rob…
A few stories via Fark:

What really happened makes an interesting point about the video that supposedly shows al Qaeda experimenting with chemical weapons on a dog. Have to admit that it does look a bit too ‘Andrex puppy’…
This one made us laugh in the jury waiting room [...]

Maybe his mum blew the money down the Bingo!!!
Wednesday turned out to be a more interesting day in court, with quite a few comedy moments (think stereotypical East-end types). Thankfully the we got through the rest of the interview transcript in about half an hour, then the jury was sent down to the canteen for [...]

Don’t Panic!
The “Dad’s Army case”, as we’ve started to call it, is getting slightly more interesting, with tales of drugs, mysterious characters called Victory, and witnesses using words like “scumbag”, “dirtbag” and “filth”. Unfortunately Tuesday afternoon was spent listening to the prosecuting advocate and a detective reading out the transcripts of several interviews with the [...]

Bloody hell, it’s so hot here in London, just know I won’t be able to get to sleep for ages tonight. I’ve just had some Fruit ‘n’ Nut chocolate (sounds like gay slang but it’s not in this instance), which was hovering between a solid and liquid state, and now I look like an IRA [...]

Shoot me now
Today I was called to sit on the jury of what must surely rank as one of the dullest trials ever to come before a court of law. It’s so tedious that I can’t be bothered writing the details of it right now — just thinking about it is liable to send me [...]

Popping in to say hello
Guaranteed another trial today, I thought to myself as I arrived at 10am. But no, it wasn’t to be. Sat chatting with a few of the jurors from Tuesday in the waiting room (Phoenix Nights, Man Utd.’s loss, crap daytime US soap on TV, more Elvis etc.). We had a good [...]

It wasn’t like this for Henry Fonda
There were only two new cases today, and I wasn’t selected to be on either jury, so no chance for me to hand out any Badger-justice. Fortunately about half the people from the jury I was on yesterday were in the same position as me, and we spent all [...]

Scumbags 1, Criminal Justice System 0
I was called for my first trial today. At 11am the Jury Manager called out 15 names, and we were led up to Court 12 on the 5th floor by an usher (there are two lifts exclusively for jurors’ use). Once inside the courtroom, we all sat down and waited [...]

Anti-climax
I started my jury service today. Luckily on Sunday night I checked the map they’d sent me to see if there was a particular entrance I needed to use. Turned out the court I was planning to go to, between Borough tube and Elephant, was actually the Inner London Crown Court, and not Southwark Crown [...]