Dawn. Absent at the assizes on the first day of deconfinement, jurors will have to pay fines

We do not laugh with the convocations of the justice. Monday, May 11, first day of deconfinement and court reopening day, the clerk of the assize court ofDawn proceeds to the appeal of the 35 full jurors and 10 substitute jurors registered on the session list.

Eight of them are absent and have not invoked “Reason for absence”, according to the decision opening the session and revising the list of session judges.

“Failed and not excused”, they were therefore fined € 100, according to this document.

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“Given the particular context, fining these people … They must have been persuaded that the hearing would not be held … It is edifying”, a lawyer from the Troyes bar was surprised.

The jurors would have been “regularly summoned”

The court found on Monday May 11 that the jurors had been informed “The resumption of judicial activity from May 11” and that they had been “Regularly convened”, reacted for its part the attorney of Troyes Sophie Macquart-Moulin.

This type of sanction “Is regularly pronounced in court of assize against summoned jurors and who do not justify their absence”, she said.

No hearing was held at the Assizes in Troyes during the confinement.

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