The Jury: Murder trial

[Newtonianmechanics]

Is anyone watching this on channel 4?

www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/the-jury-murder-trial-channel-4-experiment-explained/

A loss of control defence but its nature means the victim must be blamed for what they did to cause the loss of control.

So there isn't an easy way to please it without having to show the bad side of the victim.

I am confused how the "Ask for Angela" campaign relates to this case if it was named after the victim. I thought it was a phrase if you felt vulnerable on a night out.

The victim here was murdered in her own home. Is there more to her story? It seems weird that you'd set up something completely unrelated to someone in their memory.

From Wikipedia;

The program started in Lincolnshire, England, by Hayley Crawford, the Substance Misuse and Sexual violence (prevention) strategic Coordinator for Lincolnshire County Council.[3] Crawford started the campaign as a part of a much larger campaign, #NoMore, to decrease sexual violence and abuse in Lincolnshire. Anybody can participate in the #nomore campaign by posting a picture with the #nomore hashtag and keeping the conversation going amongst family and peers to raise awareness.[4] The "Ask for Angela" campaign is named in remembrance of Angela Crompton,[5] a woman who was abused and killed by her husband in 2012 when an argument about redecorating his house got out of control.[6][7] The campaign name, "Angela", was also inspired by the meaning of the name which is "messenger of God" or "angel".[2]

Are they all from the same area? They all have the same accent

Yes the 'juries' were all drawn from the local area - in the same way a real trial jury would be.

What is heartbreaking in these murder cases is that so often the victim's character is blackened by the defendant and his/ her defence team in the trial.
The victim can't refute any claims because they are dead.

Just finished watching it with DD17. We are horrified. The air punching and whooping when Ricky turned a jury member was awful. Poor Helen, so being a difficult woman is now punishable by death is it?

I thought the younger jurors were good and of course it was heavily edited and we only got to see some of the more thoughtful people in the deliberation scenes.

I was 18 when I did jury service. I was horrified at the racism, classism and sexism I saw in the jury room. However everyone challenged each other and several times we asked for clarification on a point of law. I was on a jury which had to go for a majority verdict as we could not all agree. This lot seemed to have very little grasp of what criteria they were judging.

Just watching. I had never heard of the case and on page 1 I see the verdict!!

To be fair if you watch something in April that was aired in February, you will find spoilers on a discussion thread. The actual case this was based on though was years ago and publicly reported.

Seeing as this programme's an experiment to see how people hearing the same evidence reach their own conclusions, I don't think knowing the outcome spoils it. The experience is in observing the participants more than knowing their verdicts.

Titanic sinks, ET goes home, Bruce Willis' character is dead.