The system is broken.

What punishment would you impose JK?

JK2006 wrote:
The system is broken.

Been following this,and why oh why did we ever get into this mess?

Anyone here got a suitable alternative punishment?

I'd have told him he shouldn't have done it and not to do it again, please.

But judges like to wield power - especially if they then get featured in the media.

Whilst I agree that a prison sentence is excessive, he deserved more than a slap on the wrist. Flouncing off to the theatre instead of carrying out ones duty shows a lack of respect to the authorities. A community service seems a more appropriate punishment. The courts would be empty if we all took this "boys" attitude. Lets also remember the implications and costs involved. How would you have felt JK if your days in court where extended/delayed because some selfish idiot decided to see Chicago with his mummy?

Probably the same, Angel, as I felt when one of my jurors claimed sickness and left during deliberation, saw me on her way to the lifts when nobody else was around, raised her eyes to the skies as if to say "sorry they are all mad" and made a sad and apologetic face.

British justice stinks.

Happy Hogmanay to you.

You make demands on people many do not want,then punish them when they try to wriggle out of it.
Easy to forget jury service is compulsory,and not easy to avoid.Add into the mix one immature messed up young lad...and then you mess him and his family up even more!

Why couldn't they have carried on with 11 jurors?

Why couldn't they have carried on with 11 jurors? Because you'll eventually have no jurors. Nobody really likes Jury duty do they? And a premature Happy Hogmany to both JK and IA. The English never get it right! (its next Saturday x).

This why I don't vote I don't want to go on jury duty I would have to drag it long as possible to get more pay. And I can't be bothered hearing evidence as the important evidence is not heard in court.

This is what I did to avoid Jury Duty for 57 years (now, of course, I'm ineligible).
I used to agree with enthusiasm but explain that, no matter what the evidence, I would vote Not Guilty since I did not consider myself in a position to judge another human being.
They always decided I was not suitable. Of course, if I said I'd vote GUILTY they would have had me like a shot!

Modern trials can be far too complex,or boring for the average person in the street.
The jury worked well before the industrial revolution,time to update things a bit.