The members of the jury are tasked with reaching a verdict that will have far-ranging repercussions. The evidence before them is finely balanced, and although some still hope to reach an easy consensus, others caution against a rush to judgement.

The scene could be lifted straight out of 12 Angry Men, the classic film in which Henry Fonda’s conscientious Juror #8 engages in a battle of wills with Lee J Cobb’s recalcitrant Juror #3 about whether to send a defendant to the chair. And although the