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 used to be very common to put jurors in a hotel to prevent them from contacting the outside world. That’s expensive and isn’t done much now. Instead, jurors get a stern talking to, told not to do anything that might influence them and are sent home in most cases.
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