{"id":221,"date":"2005-07-29T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-29T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T12:26:14","slug":"more-on-juries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"More on juries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>R v Abdroikov, Green &amp; Williamson [2005] CA<\/strong> <br \/><strong>[Juries &#8211; composition]<\/strong><br \/>DDD challenged the composition of the jury in their trials. In two cases, a serving police officer sat as a juror, and in the other, a Crown Prosecution Service solicitor. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: Since the <strong>Criminal Justice Act 2003<\/strong> persons eligible to sit on a jury had been widened. It was necessary to draw a distinction between eligibility and whether a particular person should sit on a particular jury. <br \/>Persons involved in the administration of justice should not automatically be regarded as being disqualified, because of their occupations, from a jury. Jurors are randomly selected and appear as members of the public. <br \/>Special knowledge of the criminal justice system might create unconscious prejudiced, prejudice could exist in any juror and there being 12 jurors guards against individual prejudice. <br \/>It is expected that those employed in the administration of justice would be particularly careful not to act in a manner which was inconsistent with their jury duty. <br \/>In some cases the occupation of a juror as a police officer could reduce rather than increase his influence. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Guilty<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R v Abdroikov, Green &amp; Williamson [2005] CA [Juries &#8211; composition]DDD challenged the composition of the jury in their trials. In two cases, a serving police officer sat as a juror, and in the other, a Crown Prosecution Service solicitor. Held: Since the Criminal Justice Act 2003 persons eligible to sit on a jury had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}