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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It’s extremely rare for jurors to be sequestered… only in cases of significant media coverage. Also, most trials are only a few days, not weeks.
I served on a jury for a trial that got local media coverage in Chicago (so not some tiny town), and we were just asked to not watch local news or read parts of newspaper where it might be covered, not to discuss case with anybody, not post on social media. We got to go home at end of each day. Trial lasted 4 days…
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