The juror who caused the rape trial of former Coalition staffer Bruce Lehrmann to be aborted told the judge they were “deeply sorry” before offering to take responsibility for what they had done.
ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum discharged the 12-person jury on October 27 last year after five days of deliberations in the three-week trial because one of them had brought in research about the frequency of false complaints of sexual assault.
“I’m willing to take responsibility for that, Your Honour, if you feel that that’s appropriate,” the juror said. The exchange, conducted in a private hearing, has been revealed in exhibits tendered to and released by an inquiry into the conduct of authorities handling the 2022 trial. “Can I just say I give you my sincere apologies. I wasn’t aware that ... doing this was ... in any sense a wrongdoing. I was just purely doing - finding out what it meant, certain words, and in case I mentioned it to the jury, I want to make sure that I wasn’t inventing anything.
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