{"id":278,"date":"2006-03-03T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-03T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T10:20:27","slug":"jury-accusations-that-the-judge-favoured-the-prosecution-lead-to-the-collapse-of-the-trial-of-a-man-accused-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Jury accusations that the judge favoured the prosecution lead to the collapse of the trial of a man accused of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial was at Swansea Crown Court; the Judge HH John Diehl; the defendant aged 33; the victim a 17-year-old girl; the defence &#8211; she had consented. <\/p>\n<p>The jurors accused the judge of <strong>&#8220;partiality towards the prosecution&#8221;<\/strong> in a note that they handed up to him. He immediately told the prosecution and defence barristers ordered a new trial and stood down. <br \/>The defendant was acquitted by the new jury in 40 minutes. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Judge Diehl who ordered a new trial\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/judge_diehl.jpg\" border=0><br \/>The <strong>Judicial Communications Office<\/strong> said there was no record of a similar incident in a crown court. (The Judicial Communications Office was set up in April 2005 to provide external and internal communications facilities for judicial office holders in England and Wales).&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial was at Swansea Crown Court; the Judge HH John Diehl; the defendant aged 33; the victim a 17-year-old girl; the defence &#8211; she had consented. The jurors accused the judge of &#8220;partiality towards the prosecution&#8221; in a note that they handed up to him. He immediately told the prosecution and defence barristers ordered [&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-278","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\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}