Jury Service: Day 7
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 defendant. Not the salient, juicy highlights, but the whole damn thing. And as neither of them is exactly Ken Brannagh or Robert De Niro, their monotone voices made it hard to concentrate. If there were any interesting points in there, we probably missed them. By the time the session finished, after about two hours of this, we still hadn’t reached the end.
- Too warm for sleep
- Jury Service: Day 8