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Jurors in the News

Interesting cases this month about jurors and jury duty:

The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a death row inmate due to the behavior of jurors.  During Erickson Dimas-Martinez's trial for capital murder and armed robbery, one juror fell asleep and another was tweeting about the case (and the quality of the courthouse coffee), even after being questioned by the trial judge.

Opinion here.

Chicago Sun-Times

ABA Journal

In Manchester, a juror was sentenced to 14 days in a young offenders institution (he served five days) for lying to the court about his whereabouts.  The 19-year-old student told the court he was sick, but was in fact seeing a show in London.

The Telegraph

Manchester Evening News

BBC News