Sudoku Addicts Stop Trial

A four-month-long drug trial that cost over $1 million has been aborted after it was found that jurors were playing the puzzle game sudoku while evidence was being given. Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra stopped the trial after the jury foreperson told him that four to five jurors were playing up to half the time the trial had been going on. Everyone knows that if you get bored on a jury you should watch a movie on your iPod, take a nap or work on your manifesto.

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[Anonymous Cowpat]

Australia, like many countries, pays far below the average wage for jurors (juror pay: AU$125, average wage AU$220). In the immortal words of Lisa Simpon: "meh; slave labor - you get what you pay for".

In defense of the Australian system, juror pay is not limited only to lost wages, it's made up of AU$20 base, then up to AU$105 for lost wages, expenses etc. This means that those people not normally earning wages, such as students in their holiday, don't find themselves forced to turn up to do essentially fre