Judge warning over snoozing jury man

A JURY foreman yesterday reassured a judge that all 12 jurors were giving a case their full attention.

The reassurance came at Limerick Circuit Court in a trial where the accused was alleged to have shot a neighbour.

Judge Carroll Moran, addressing the jury, said society was very conscious of the need for a fair trial and that it was in this context that he saying there was a perception that one member of the jury was nodding off.