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Sunday Star-Times looks to be in contempt
By Steven | March 27, 2011
Publishing interviews with jurors about the case they have decided is a contempt of court. Our courts have said that if jurors thought their deliberations may be made public, they’d be less willing to serve on a jury and less willing to be frank during deliberations. Revisiting cases may also upset the finality of jury verdicts.
These premises are not unchallengeable, and do not even seem to apply with great force here. What’s more, such interviews take place regularly in the US without the sky falling. But our courts have been (sometimes ridiculously) staunch about the rule.
So it’s hard to see how the SST gets away with this and this.
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