You can imagine Samsung is likely to use public statements made subsequently
by any juror enjoying his 15 minutes of fame giving interviews and being popular
in social media, questioning the integrity of jury deliberations in their own
defense and bringing those statements to the notice of the court.
Jurors
take an oath that binds them to follow the rule of law as explained by the court
- those pesky jury instructions, which also reference the oath and were read to
the juror.
In the 9th District, model civil jury
instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen: You are now the jury in this
case. It is my duty to instruct you on the law.
These instructions are
preliminary instructions to help you understand the principles that apply to
civil trials and to help you understand the evidence as you listen to it. You
will be allowed to keep this set throughout the trial to which to refer. This
set of instructions is not to be taken home and must remain in the jury room
when you leave in the evenings. At the end of the trial, I will give you a final
set of instructions. It is the final set of instructions which will govern your
deliberations.
You must not infer from these instructions or from anything I
may say or do as indicating that I have an opinion regarding the evidence or
what your verdict should be.
It is your duty to find the facts from all the
evidence in the case. To those facts you will apply the law as I give it to you.
You must follow the law as I give it to you whether you agree with it or not.
And you must not be influenced by any personal likes or dislikes, opinions,
prejudices, or sympathy. That means that you must decide the case solely on the
evidence before you. You will recall that you took an oath to do so.
In
following my instructions, you must follow all of them and not single out some
and ignore others; they are all important.
On the other hand what
we see in the media isn't necessarily the whole or accurate truth.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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