Eva Blandis

in the courtroom, it always fascinates me because if I was a family member, I would be so frustrated not being able to sit in there.

And I know that that's just the way it is, but it would just be so, it would be like torture, wouldn't it?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, so I think that is a really good point because this juror's obviously done the wrong thing but then has done the right thing.

So it's like they've initially...

not followed the judge's direction and then they followed the direction by reporting their mistakes.

So in South Australia, jurors can be charged with contempt of court, but it's not actually the judge who charges them or it's not police or anything.

It's the registrar of that court.

So in this case, the Supreme Court.

From my understanding, this happens once a judge chooses to report them to the registrar.

So it's sort of up to them to decide what to do.

But then maybe this juror's realised their huge mistake and has then fessed up.

So they've sort of in a way corrected their mistake.

Yeah.

Justice Kimber sort of touched on that when he addressed the issue and he sort of said he wouldn't be surprised if they were feeling really...

upset and disappointed.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

It's over.

So what the jury should do is when they have a question, they should write it on a note and then they give it to the sheriff's officer who hands it to the judge's associates.