I was a juror once.
"Ooh, the victim has a lovely shirt on"
"If my son was accused I'd get him a proper barrister, not Legal Aid"
"Look at them (counsel) they're all mates"
"They're taking the piss"(points of law)
Despite your shocking example of racism, I don't think it's usually juries that are the problem.
I think Letby has shown a problem with circumstantial cases where the whole circumstances aren't revealed. Perhaps the defence should have more right to admit indirect evidence in circumstantial cases.
If the Crime Scene 2 Courtroom transcripts are accurate then it seems Johnson also repeatedly kept emphasising that understaffing was irrelevant because no evidence was heard that proved it affected the children. It sounds similar to the argument I criticised in Seema Misra /
I think in Letby, judge and jury were both led into the error that 1) there must be one discrete cause of increased problems 2) there will be evidence of it in a simple admissible format. Otherwise guilt - Letby of the gaps - applies by default. https://circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/letby-of-the-gaps/
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"Ooh, the victim has a lovely shirt on"
"If my son was accused I'd get him a proper barrister, not Legal Aid"
"Look at them (counsel) they're all mates"
"They're taking the piss"(points of law)
Gruesome experience
I think Letby has shown a problem with circumstantial cases where the whole circumstances aren't revealed. Perhaps the defence should have more right to admit indirect evidence in circumstantial cases.
https://circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/hazardous-evidence-sophistry-and-jury-warnings/
https://circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/letby-of-the-gaps/