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Speaker 1: What I would like out of the Polkinghorn trial is

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Speaker 1: access to the jury. This country has an archaic and

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Speaker 1: sheltered view of certain aspects of justice. As far as

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned, if you believe justice has to be seen

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Speaker 1: to be done, it behooves us to fully understand the process.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I've had virtually no interest in this trial.

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Speaker 1: I have no real overarching interest in crime generally. I

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Speaker 1: did get fascinated many years ago by the baying business,

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Speaker 1: but Polkinghorn has passed me by. He either did it

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Speaker 1: or he didn't. Are the juries working that out as

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Speaker 1: we speak. A change I have noticed in particular this time,

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Speaker 1: and it confirms my lack of interest in matters makes

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Speaker 1: me part of a very very very small minority is

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Speaker 1: the blogging that has gone on from court from the

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Speaker 1: digital media. See. A criticism I've always had about media

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Speaker 1: coverage of court in this country is mainly their cherry

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Speaker 1: pickers and mainly formats, particularly the news bulletins, never gives

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Speaker 1: fair insight into daily proceedings. See this time, it's been

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Speaker 1: no different. TV seems to have come and gone on

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Speaker 1: a slow day, they cover it on a busy day.

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Speaker 1: They don't having been in court enough over the years.

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Speaker 1: The tricky part is how slowly it all moves, and

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Speaker 1: therefore it is easy for the media to miss a

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Speaker 1: lot of detail, not to mention subtlety and nuance. If

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Speaker 1: you can't cover it properly, don't is my rule of thumb,

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Speaker 1: which is where the digital operators have been able to

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Speaker 1: give you all the blow by blow detail you could

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Speaker 1: ever want, and from my inquiries, it's been absorbed vociferously

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Speaker 1: by most of the population. But back to the jury

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Speaker 1: in America, you get to talk to them. Why not here?

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Speaker 1: Surely in a trial of this detail and interest, knowing

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Speaker 1: what they thought or didn't think, what they make out

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Speaker 1: is critical or of no consequence, is not only fascinating,

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Speaker 1: but vital to understanding as to how we got to

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Speaker 1: where we're about to get open justice seeing it work,

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Speaker 1: getting the detail from those closest to it, Surely you

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Speaker 1: can't argue that wouldn't improve the process. Therefore our understanding,

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Speaker 1: and how possibly is that a bad thing? For more

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