By John Leyden for The Register. This
story has been reproduced with permission.
The female juror was removed from the case at Burnley Crown
Court on 18 November after her poke against justice was revealed,
AP
reports. Jurors are forbidden from talking about cases outside
court.
The trial proceeded with a 11 person jury. The unnamed woman
involved can consider herself fortunate not to be held in contempt
of court after she posted details about the child abduction and sex
assault case online and ran a poll asking her mates whether they
thought the suspect was guilty.
"I don't know which way to go, so I'm holding a poll" she wrote,
the Daily Telegraph reports.
After the juror was dismissed the remaining 11-person panel
returned their verdicts.
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2008
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