I’m not from the US so I’m not quite sure if I got this right: During a court trial jury members are not allowed to be influenced by the outside so they are cut off from the society during the duration of the trial.
But how does this work. Taking the heard depp defamation trial as an example. The trial should last for 5 weeks in addition to a 10 days break. So are the jury members isolated for more than 6 weeks or how does this exactly work?
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>During a court trial jury members are not allowed to be influenced by the outside so they are cut off from the society during the duration of the trial.
This is not correct. Jury members are not expected to be completely shielded from any outside influence. In almost all cases, it’s simply enough to tell the jurors not to consider outside information. It’s extremely rare for jurors to actually be sequestered. This only happens in the most high-profile extreme cases.
Jurors in the Depp v. Herd case are not sequestered. They’re free to go about their lives. The judge would have simply warned them not to discuss the trial with anyone or to to consider outside information.
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