Can a jury play games and pay attention to a trial? See this story. What do you think?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080611/od_nm/sudoku_dc

Should the trial have been cancelled?

Answer 1

Would you want to see the jury playing games if you were in the defendant's box?

Answer 2

I recently read that. Poor Sudoku. They gave them a bad rap.

Anyways, of course it should have been cancelled because the jurors' blatant indifference to the ongoing trial that could affect many factors or people. Shame on them.

Couldn't they act, as adults, better than most "teenagers" like me?

Not a good model for the term, "responsibility".

Answer 3

No, and the jury members concerned should be charged with contempt of court and if found guilty made to  pay toward the cost of of the original trial.