When juries deliberate, they discuss their reasons for thinking this or that. Basically, by telling the jury to disregard something, the judge is saying that this shouldn’t be included in the decision-making process.
Of course people can’t just take things out of their heads, and of course the legal representatives take advantage of that fact.
Context. Usually if the jury is around during evidentiary objections it’s because a witness is on the stand and what’s being objected to is the addition to witness testimony to the transcript of the hearing. When the jury goes into deliberations they can ask for the transcript to be read back to them. That transcript is the jury’s memory and why we’re able to work around a standard of “reasonable” doubt.
I’ve been on a jury once. In that particular case, there were a couple jurors who took it upon themselves to police anybody bringing up anything that we were instructed to disregard. You may not think twelve people is a lot, but I’m my experience, it was twelve wildly different personalities which was frustrating, but ultimately beneficial in coming to a unanimous decision.
Further, they sent us out of the courtroom several times during the trial so opposing counsels could fight over what could and couldn’t be entered into evidence for us to see.
I assume the jurors get the transcript of the case with the objected parts removed.
I say on a murder trial and we saw no transcript. We could have asked for certain sections to be read to us if we wanted. Wait… We could have asked (you can ask for anything), no idea if the judge would have done it.
You’re correct. They’ll read the transcript to you if asked, but can’t provide a written copy of it for the jury to keep and reference.
The transcript is typed by a stenographer, so good luck reading it anyway.