rumpelstiltskin wrote:How droll Ms Mintballs. Wilful stupidity indeed!
Perhaps you should take a moment or several to try and understand that it is not the pigmentation of one's skin , rather the social/ cultural characteristics as well as ancestry, which contribute to ones ethnicity.
That aside, the composition of this Jury was 8 women and 4 men, and at least some of them appeared to have only the faintest grasp of what the Judge was saying. Which raises the very valid questions posed earlier.....is the present British Jury system adequate for the 21st Century, or could it be improved, or was this simply an unfortunate case of 12 extremely thick people?.
And could one qualifying improvement not be, that a basic understanding of the English language be a pre requisite before serving on a Jury?
Think you've hit the nail on the head with that breakdown. As I said earlier - in my experience of jury service one jury did not function properly because it had a few over-anxious women on it who were frightened of making a decision. Perhaps, the answer is male only jurors so the ladies don't need to worry their pretty little heads over matters other than shopping?
