I wonder whether it is legal and acceptable for jurors to reveal something that went on during a trial. I know details of deliberations in the jury room are, for some reason, banned. But if, for example, a juror knows that another juror did online research during a trial, would it be allowed for him or her to go to a judge and tell them? I also wonder whether any of the remaining jurors in my first trial (not the second when I was acquitted) are reading this.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990760...ous-convictions.html

I imagine you'll have seen this www.gov.uk/government/speeches/trial-by-...dia-and-the-internet

When so many people seem to be so absorbed in their smartphones, it's hard not to wonder how many can resist the urge to do some online research when on jury duty.

So now jurors know that if they are tempted to google in a weak moment they MUST NOT own up to it or they might end up in jail.
I think the jury system is daft anyway. Too many people are morons. They should have permanent jurors trained and suitable for the job.

In my trial the jury took several days to consider the verdicts (the trial itself was under 5 days). I'm certain one of them Googled me one night, saw the original allegations (ordered abandoned by the Judge and not a part of the first trial), decided I must have "done it before" and told other jurors. However I can't ask that and they are not allowed to tell me about discussions "in the jury room". But they can tell a Judge if something happened OUTSIDE that room.

By the way, in the 12 hours since starting this thread, 550 visitors have read it. If one of those, or the 5000 odd who will read it over the next few weeks, happens to be or to know someone who was on my first trial jury - BINGO!

JK2006 wrote:
In my trial the jury took several days to consider the verdicts (the trial itself was under 5 days). I'm certain one of them Googled me one night, saw the original allegations (ordered abandoned by the Judge and not a part of the first trial), decided I must have "done it before" and told other jurors. However I can't ask that and they are not allowed to tell me about discussions "in the jury room". But they can tell a Judge if something happened OUTSIDE that room.

By the way, in the 12 hours since starting this thread, 550 visitors have read it. If one of those, or the 5000 odd who will read it over the next few weeks, happens to be or to know someone who was on my first trial jury - BINGO!

Googling or not, how could they not be aware of the allegations when it was common knowledge?

It was a year earlier Honey, and naturally the allegations were different; Jurors would not have been aware of that; they would have assumed, since the claims were different, I'd been "done" and found guilty of them before so this must be a SECOND lot. They weren't to know they had inspired this lot and been rejected.