Recent content by Dave32

I think it unlikely someone helped him get out of the area where he landed. He wouldn't have known the exact flightpath the plane was going to take so the likely landing zone would have been so uncertain covering dozens of square miles.

When I was on a jury at the end of every day the judge told us to go away, go home, and forget about the trial until next time we were in court. I don't know if those are standard directions though.

Out of interest how does the Liverpool Echo get the court transcript? It seems like it's word for word.

Do we know what they have actually been charged with, is it literally "X is charged with murder", and "Y is charged with murder"? I ask because I was on a jury recently for a drug dealing case. The defendants weren't charged with drug dealing though, they were charged with "conspiracy" to deal...

Just out of interest what did you call him?

What does this mean?

If this is the case would it mean that the media all know several of the verdicts now, or that they just know there have been verdicts but don't know what the verdicts are?

Do you know if there's much of interest happening on days like these (assuming there is no verdict)? And do you just turn up or is there a queue? I've never been near a courtroom before but I'm in Manchester today I was thinking of maybe popping in.

It was originally 5 weeks but I asked them to change it.

On the first one, was this something that a witness said in court? I'm wondering otherwise how the judge would know. On the second, do juries not have access to witness statements (or court transcripts), or are they expected to remember everything? I assume they can take notes, can't they...

It must be really hard to remember all the evidence from 10 months ago. I'm wondering if there could be some better way of doing trials like this, like maybe considering the charges one at a time and giving a verdict on each before moving on to the next.

I'm new to this thread, I was wondering where this trial was up to. Why does it have 4.5 hour court days rather than longer ones, as you say many trials do?

Very sad regarding Christina Rack, I also live nearby and can't fathom how her body wasn't found sooner. There doesn't seem to have been an inquest, at least I can't find any news by Googling. Would a case like this not have one, or is it just taking a long time?