Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland disagreed. A Toronto murder trial had to start over after a juror did some online research. In Australia, some states have enacted legislation prohibiting juror research. Judges can add specific examples in the instruction against research, such as telling jurors not to access legal databases. “Nobody wants to make criminal prosecutions of jurors who do the wrong thing a regular feature of the criminal justice system,” Dufraimont said.

Source: thestar May 22, 2018 01:07 UTC