CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: These jurors leap to conclusions before the kettle’s even boiled…
Jury: Murder Trial (CH4)
The rule that fits the British justice is always innocent until the defendant is proved to be guilty. But not anymore. Now, the assumption of innocence continues as long as we need to conclude.
Now very few people have the patience to hear all the facts or to weigh evidence. This time and limit itself, a dose of humility should not be mentioned.
None of these qualities jury: 12 ‘ordinary people’ murder case is not displayed and invites them to decide on a woman accused of killing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife.
(These ‘ordinary people’ do not refer to their class, education or deying. It means not only ‘celebrities’. Paradox is now on television, that they are temporary celebrities, and they can easily become stars.
These 12 jury members are looking forward to forming their opinions. At least one, the 69 -year -old retired chef David seemed to have made his decision before the show started. ‘I think justice is very soft now,’ he said. ‘It must be a deterrent.’
Jury player: murder trial (in the picture ball row, from left to right: Kate, David, Dan H, Aimee, Zoran, Rebecca, Lower Row from left to right: Tommy, James, Dan A, Joanne, Stacey and Marissa, Pre -defendant – Sophie)
Show 12 ‘ordinary people’ and invites her boyfriend to decide on a woman accused of killing with a kitchen knife.
The defendant (in the picture, Sophie) must have been abused and in fact it was a real victim, a jury member decided while the hearing continued
Another, 26 -year -old support worker Aimee seized the opposite. The defendant must have been exploited and in fact the real victim should have been, he decided as he continued the hearing.
“No, he stabbed him, killed him.” Easy to say. Black black, white white. What happened for them to be rotten for them? ‘He wanted.
What do people want him to do, just lie there and get there? Is this the message we send to women? ‘
Aimee has a meaning. These days, it is not enough for people to do their jobs and go home for their teas. Everyone has to send a message.
Life has become an endless referendum that all decisions should have public performances. It is not enough for the jury to decide whether a defendant is guilty – it should do so to send a message to the society.
And they have extensive opportunities, because after each witness leaves the stand, 12 ordinary people return to the comfort of discussion rooms with sofas and biscuit buffets.
The kettle are limited to new results before boiling.
Tommy and James sit on the front bench when Dan A grasps his notebook and looking down.
David, Marissa and Stacey argue in the negotiation room during the channel 4 show
Fortunately, in this case, the hearing is a model. Although the four -part series, which continued until Friday, is based on a real prosecution, names and important details have been changed to prevent viewers from identifying the original experiment.
Proceedings were also shortened, speeches and cross investigations were cut short. After all, we can’t expect the jury to sit down from all boring lice.
They need to continue their serious work.
