#jurors

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[gwydionmisha]

‘The no’s are piling up’: MAGA overreach rejected by airports, colleges, jurors

“It seems like the harder that MAGA leans into the authoritarianism, the more people are finding the voice to push back,” says Chris Hayes.

[scotianostra]

March 15th 1921 saw the first women jurors in Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Dates are all over the place with this one, the 10th and 19th are given elsewhere, they all agree it was March of this year. The extract from The Herald gives the 15th. I think what we have here is different courts in Scotland with dates for women's involvement. Anyway a wee bit background;

Ladies have been able to sit on juries in the UK since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 came into force, but it only governed women in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we in AScotland have a, largely, different law system that was agreed at the time of the acts of union in 1707.

On August 9th 1920, a Bill was introduced to regulate how “Scottish women jurors” would be introduced and managed in the courts . The resulting Jurors (Enrolment of Women) (Scotland) Act was given Royal Assent on 16th August 1920, with a timescale of no more than 6 months for it to be brought into effect: “new lists of jurors shall be prepared and come into use in every county within six months after the passing of this Act”. The Court of Session passed an Act of Sederunt regulating the procedure for juries with women on 7th February, and in advance of the February 1921 deadline, in Edinburgh in December 1920 Sheriff Crole instructed the Sheriff Clerk to create a new jurors roll for the city and county, including eligible men and women, and 27,500 circulars were issued. The citations for the Edinburgh Sheriff Court were the first to be issued, and there was discussion of the potential for lady jurors to be cited for duty on 14t March 1921 trial of “the alleged Sinn Fein prisoners”

As I said the different courts have different dates and one source has the first trial as March 10th The case involved the theft of grain from a warehouse in Leith.

Female jurors were expected to first sit in Glasgow Sheriff Court on the 15th of March 1921 and the first lady jurors in the Court of Session sat on the 17th of March 1921 , before Lord Sands. “The case submitted to the jury, whom counsel addressed as “members of the jury” had reference to a claim for damages arising out of a Leith tram-car accident.” This case appears to be unreported, notable only for the jurors rather than the legal points.The first mixed jury sat in Glasgow Sheriff Court on the 21st of March 1921 .

The first murder trial with female jurors in Scotland was heard in Perth on the 5th of April 1921

Although there is regular reference to the belief that women sitting on juries is an experiment, and that it would be “reconsidered by Parliament”, it soon became settled that women were regular participants in juries. The advent of women jurors seems to generally have been received with equanimity in Scotland. Which is more than could be said about the public's reaction to women studying to become doctors in the case of the Edinburgh Seven some 32 years before.

It appears that sitting as a juror was initially something that ladies could excuse themselves from when asked by the judge if they wanted to do so, but this was not something that was occurring in Scotland. Those being tried also apparently had the right to object to female jurors hearing their case, and if this happened, they were dismissed. Again, this does not appear to have happened in Scotland, with mention of defendants objecting to female jurors all relating to English cases. Another concern was how to address female jurors, as “gentlemen of the jury” was no longer accurate, so “members of the jury” seems to have taken its place

By 1923, female jurors seems to be firmly established as a part of normal court business in Scotland, sitting on a variety of cases. The Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Alness, praised female jurors in a speech to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh in January 1923.

On a lighter note by January 1922, you could have placed a bet on a Lady Juror…in the Victoria Cup at Hurst . She appears to have had quite a successful career: by September 1922 she won the Jockey Club Sweepstakes at Newmarket and was still winning five years later at Lingfield in 1927.

It looks like the Lady Juror was definitely a good long-term bet 😉

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[glass-3902]

I love you Juror No. 1, I love you Juror No. 2, I love you Juror No. 3, I love you Juror No. 4, I love you Juror No. 5 and I love you Juror No. 6

[vickyvicarious]

Okay, I know this is meant to be about her being aware of nuance in relationships and connections between people who haven't openly disclosed them, more perceptive than she seems at first glance. And that's how Ryunoske reacts.

But also. Feels like she ships that second one. The tilted head, clasped hands, little smile, calling van Zieks handsome, ahaha, she's having fun with the idea of Albert/Barok.

[dosesofcommonsense]

The case that should be labeled mistrial for the judge’s actions might still go to mistrial for juror conduct…

Judge Merchan has notified prosecutors and Donald Trump’s defense about this comment left on the NY court system’s FB a day before the verdict:

"My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted 🎉 Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!! ♥️.”

nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre… https://x.com/molcranenewman/status/1799176715295723574?s=46

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12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

3/20/24