Thread: House Arrest
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Old 28-01-2005, 00:19   #75
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Re: House Arrest

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Originally Posted by punky
Yes, but that would mean exposing the jury, lawyers, judge, stenographers to information that they would be better off not knowing. What if a jury member had a brother who worked in Canary Warf and Canary Warf had been actively targetted 5 times in a month, every month? The jury member would be tormented.
I thought that they checked potential jurors for conflict of interest as part of jury selection. Your hypothetic juror should get "deselected" fairly early on in the process on that basis!
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