UK jury acquits Spacey

https://apnews.com/article/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-trial-london-jury-deliberations-85cb3957c60de1a7b1e03a26dc278d95

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 8:13 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote:

> A couple decades ago, I was on a jury for a civil trial in Federal court
> that was officially sequestered when we went to deliberations - which only
> took a few hours, so they didn't have to decide whether or not they were
> going to sequester us overnight. (We did get lunch on Uncle Sam's dime.)
> Because this was a boring employment discrimination case that wouldn't
> particularly have interested the news media, I suspect the sequestration
> was more of a formality so that they could have a U.S. marshal watching to
> make sure that none of the jurors disappeared at that point in the
> proceedings.
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2023, at 7:00 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It’s pretty rare in the US too…
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 at 1:38 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sequestering juries is pretty rare in the UK. Probably in part because
>> there are much tighter reporting restrictions on UK court cases - which
>> includes *everyone*. The only reporting allowed is what factually took
>> place in court - no commenting, theorising or anything else. Even random
>> TikTok-ers doing catch-ups would be considered sub judice in the UK, and
>> could lead to a mistrial. (Quite what would happen if what occurred on Tik
>> Tok and YouTube with the US Depp/Heard case had happened with the prior UK
>> case, I'm not sure).
>>
>> Anyway, it means that there is less of an issue of needing to put
>> jurors in a hotel to avoid seeing prejudicial coverage.
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:33 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> From the judge's opening remarks, it sounds as though the jury won't be
>>> sequestered...
>>>
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kevin-spacey-uk-criminal-trial-start-1235524626/
>>>  (link)
>>> B
>>>
>>> Moi, Nov 16th 2022:
>>>
>>> They're up to 12. The first five will be heard in June.
>>>
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-spacey-sexual-offenses-uk-charge-1235263036/
>>>  (link)
>>>
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