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Originally Posted by cybmole
so reading a paperback while" listening" to the boring parts of the trial was OK ?
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I suspect that they are afraid of a juror being influenced by what on they could read on the web. The only time I was on jury duty, no newspapers and no TV or radio news was the order of the day. I did have a couple of dead-tree books to read when not in the courtroom but even those had to be approved. I could read Larry Niven stories -- the death penalty for jaywalking didn't seem to be an issue, I could read Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty but I couldn't read Joseph Wambaugh's The Blue Knight though I couldn't see how it had any relationship to a burglary and possession of stolen property case.
Weird and wonderful to put it mildy.
Regards,
David