Jeremy Gans, "The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System" (Waterside Press, 2017)
Juries are a cornerstone of the criminal trial, but what happens when the jury engages in its own kind of mischief? In this book, Jeremy Gans delves into the case of R v Young, where a newly married couple was murdered in cold blood. At trial, some jurors turned to a Ouija board for guidance. One of the appeal judges, Sir Ronald Waterhouse described the case as ‘the most bizarre appeal that I sat on… The whole episode had the flavour of a television play rather than a real-life (and very grave) criminal trial.’ These seemingly salacious details conceal deeper issues encountered by jurors, and…
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