General Chat

just wondering has anyone ever done it

and your experiences of it

i got called sat in the jury lounge for 2 weeks lol

i was put on a case but a friend was a witness the same day so they took me of incase i got put on the case he was witness on

so sat bored for 2 weeks lisening to everyone elses cases lol

luv
stray
xxx

no

but i know a few whos stood before the jury

Yep l have and in my view it was a sham. The police thought the same!!
Really hope l don't get called again!!!!
jude sarf wales

lol some of the peeps in with me were on a high profile case when it finished they got fully dismissed and were police escorted home that must have been scary for them

I've never been called.
Daughter was called when she was about 20 ...maybe 21?

She was there for just a few days, ....alot of sitting around, she said.
It was not easy to get to Canterbury from here on public transport. I think that was more hassle than the court case.

Gwyn

I have been.Dont want to be called again.Brother has done it twice. Annie

I waited for years to be called and then out of the blue it came - had a great time and met a load of nice people. Was on two cases - one alleged rape and one a sort of incest. We found both defendants not guilty I'm glad to say. The young lad in the rape case cried when I said [I was foreman for that one] Not Guilty, and his family nearly collapsed. Found out after that the little madam had made such claims before but we did not believe her thank goodness. As to the guy in the second case, he was "set up" and we all recognised that and he was found not guilty too - all in all a good experience.

Stray

hubby goes tomorrow for two weeks to warwick and when we lived in Hastings he had two weeks at Lewes and did a couple of cases rest of time he got sent home .

If he gets sent home again this time he has a customer who is ok for him to just turn up to do bits if he gets chance to.

At Lewes they said to him they could tell what he did as a job because of the state of his mobile, hes a painter and it is splattered with paint

some others wen i was there went guilty on a spouce abuse claim found him guilty and after the judge read of a page of charges he had against him for past partners


ye dawnie was you comment on your thread that made me wonder others lolxxxxx

I did Jury service about two years ago - only one case - 'White Collar' Crime.

He was guilty - I think 10 out of 12 of us in the end agreed.

A lot of time sitting around, unable to smoke and I had a stinking cold at the time which didnt help.

oh we had a green house built in the jury room to go smoke in lol

we must have been lucky bet they havent got one now tho lol

Yup, sat in lounge for almost a week. Got to go into a case and then after a day were told we had to find accused innocent due to inconsistencies between witness statement and testimony. Afterwards we were told all about the history of the suspect and it was sickening, he was obviously guilty and got away with it on a technicality.

summer that is disgraceful they should dismiss the case not makes yous find him not guilty

specially if he was the law stinks sumtyms

xx

Have been twice, was on an incest case (found guilty) and a GBH where he was acquitted. The first was difficult as it was his word against hers but afterwards we found that he had another case pending for the same thing so we felt vindicated. Was called again for the third time but managed not to go on that one. Don't want to do it again

Hi Stray

Yes, I went on a shotgun murder (guilty) and a glassing (not guilty) about 20 years ago.

Hubs is due to do his in May. He was called up in September but it was the week following my hysterectomy so they gave him a deferral until May.

He's half looking forward to it and half dreading it.

I would love to do it again, although there can be loads of waiting around to be picked for a case, and that bit is soul destroyingly boring.

Dianne xx

Did it a few years ago --found it interesting.Got lovely lunch too!
Ros xx

It was Stray. We were absolutely disgusted and he was so cocky after too.

The other case, I wasn't selected for that one but because they couldn't just send the rest of us home we got to sit in. Was much more interesting but then the defendants changed their plea to guilty and we were all sent home.

In all it was pretty dull.

When I was in college we went on a trip to london, as part of it we went to the old bailey and sat in on a Murder trial. It was all bogged down with so much legalese I was glad we weren't on the jury, but the gyst of it was that this guy had killed two people and one of them he'd put in bin bags and taken her somewhere. Unfortunately it was set to go on for weeks and we had only one afternoon in the beginning. Never did find out how it turned out.

Hey... we didn't get lunch! That sucks.

we got a card with 5 pound a day on it for lunch in there canteen but for lunch it was bought 750 with a drink so went out the local cafe

and at the end we got all the fivers we hadnt spend back lol

I didn't even get that Katiemaw !!

If your employer won't pay you the court are supposed to. I was serving for 3 weeks and neither of them paid me. My parents had to keep me and give me spending money too.

Dianne xx