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Originally Posted by MBates
I will say, however, the judge continually going on at length about the jurors needing to take care of themselves and unnecessarily re-stating over and over how much counselling they might need and how hard the evidence has been is problematic. It is not language consistent with impartiality. If I were the Crown I would be wishing and asking he would stop that.
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Interesting, I never thought those comments would be an issue. I just assumed it was because they were seeing and hearing graphic things (the gore pics from the computer, potential torture/murder tools, pictures of blood and potentially dead bodies).
Would comments like this give the Garland reason for appeal (assuming he is found guilty) on their own, or would he need more than that?