On 27 Sep, 20:38, Webmanager_CritEst  wrote:
> On Sep 27, 6:11 pm, Paul Hyett <p...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 at 05:10:07, Webmanager_CritEst
> >  wrote in uk.legal :
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> > >'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be
> > >wrongly convicted'
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> > >Judges should order more retrials over unsafe convictions, says
> > >criminal review chief
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> > >By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
> > >Saturday, 27 September 2008
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> > >The country's top appeal judges are failing to correct miscarriages of
> > >justice where they suspect the jury has come to a wrong verdict, the
> > >head of the body charged with investigating wrongful convictions has
> > >warned.
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> > ISTM he's missed the whole point of the jury system...
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> > Paul Hyett, Cheltenham
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> It is the best we have at the moment.
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> At times, it makes terrible errors.

ISTM that most cases where juries "make mistakes" are because the
trial was played out with a stacked deck ... evidence that a defendant
could not possibly have been at the scene of a crime is surpressed as
"confusing". The police "lose" notes that they interviewed other
suspects, or that someone else confessed to the crime as part of a
sentencing deal.

Small wonder that some jurors distrust the picture painted by the CPS
and go and do their own research. ANd when they do,- lo and behold -
they find the prosecution is "mistaken" about material facts
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/collapse-of-two-trials-blamed-on-jurorsrsquo-own-online-research-902892.html
....

IMHO jurors are treated like dirt in the UK, and you get the justice
you deserve.