In this episode we are not so much covering a criminal trial as we are covering multiple judgments made in relation to the jury that was sitting on a criminal trial. How many jury members can be dismissed from a jury panel before it is ruled to be a mistrial?
The criminal case of R v Cranston started with 15 jurors, but as the case was drawn out for many months, jurors began dropping like flies until finally... there was only 10 left.
Why were jury members discharged? For having Covid, for starting a new job, for being pregnant and for being sleepy.
Side note: The need to say jury and juror a million times really emphasises my speach impediment - apologies in advance!
CASES: R v Cranston (No 14) [2022] NSWSC 860; R v Cranston
(No 15) [2022] NSWSC 977; R v Cranston (No 16) [2022] NSWSC 1166; etc
THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.
