of judge caught jurors playing sudoku in court

The game's up - jurors playing Sudoku abort trial: This goes to show that Sudoku is an addictive game. An Australian judge aborts drug trial after at least 5 of the jurors were caught playing Sudoku. The trial had been running for 66 days.

And how the judge know that the jurors were playing Sudoku?...

...The judge saw that some of the jurors were writing vertically.

AFTER 105 witnesses and three months of evidence, a drug trial costing $1 million was aborted yesterday when it emerged that jurors had been playing Sudoku since the trial's second week.

In the District Court in Sydney, Judge Peter Zahra discharged the jury after hearing evidence from two accused men, one of their solicitors and the jury forewoman, who admitted that she and four other jurors had been diverting themselves in the jury box by playing the popular numbers game.

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