Court proceedings

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited April 2007 in A Moving Train
During trials, why does the jury come back from deliberation, the judge ask if they have reached a verdict, and they indicate they have, then the judge asks to see the verdict, and the baliff passes the verdict to the judge. All this before the verdict is revealed to the prosecution and defense.

Why must the judge see the verdict before?
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    um maybe to inform the courtroom because the jury can't speak? Someones got to inform everyone, so why not the judge.
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    but its usually not the judge who reads the verdict. Remember the OJ trial. We all saw that clip thousands of times. That wasnt judge ito reading the verdict it was the forewoman of the jury.

    Watch some court proceedings. The judge rarely reads the final verdict. Its usually as I said, the jury foreperson.

    Maybe your right, I havent ever heard of a jury member speaking during proceedings, but I have heard many times, juries speaking and giving the announcement of the defenders fate
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    plus isnt the statement "we the jury find so and so..." a cultural touchstone.

    You hear many people say "the jury says" or "the jury's out on that one" in common table talk or in common conversation. This wouldnt be the case if the jury never spoke at all.
  • tobbac
    tobbac Posts: 234
    i'd have to say that its because the judge is in charge of the proceedings....everything that happens in the courtroom has to go through him....
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  • sicnevol
    sicnevol Posts: 180
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    During trials, why does the jury come back from deliberation, the judge ask if they have reached a verdict, and they indicate they have, then the judge asks to see the verdict, and the baliff passes the verdict to the judge. All this before the verdict is revealed to the prosecution and defense.

    Why must the judge see the verdict before?
    in osme cases, he is allowed to veto power over the jury, so if he doesn't agrew with it he can throw it out and deliver his own.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    During trials, why does the jury come back from deliberation, the judge ask if they have reached a verdict, and they indicate they have, then the judge asks to see the verdict, and the baliff passes the verdict to the judge. All this before the verdict is revealed to the prosecution and defense.

    Why must the judge see the verdict before?

    so he's not surprised.
  • moeaholic
    moeaholic Posts: 535
    sicnevol wrote:
    in osme cases, he is allowed to veto power over the jury, so if he doesn't agrew with it he can throw it out and deliver his own.

    what a kick in the balls that would be. here, sit in this box for as long as we want you to, we're sequestering you, so you'll be staying in a hotel away from your family, we'll pay you, but nowhere near what you make at your job, and when i read the verdict, i'll say your work was for nothing and overturn it.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Bloodstrike wrote:
    i'd have to say that its because the judge is in charge of the proceedings....everything that happens in the courtroom has to go through him....

    exactly... what if the jury decided something extraordinary that didn't legally belong in the case/verdict?
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