Former law lecturer and jury researcher Claire Baylis used her unique position on the Trans-Tasman Jury Study to craft a novel.
In 2008, she was sitting in on the Nia Glassie murder trial in Rotorua and wondered what the experience would be like for regular Kiwis pulled from their ordinary lives to examine graphic evidence.
Several interviews later, she'd spoken to several jurors about the trials they'd sat in on and this research inspired Dice, a fictionalised courtroom drama.
"I just became really fascinated by the jury, I realised how difficult it was to be a juror watching them. It was a trial that went on for over a month, there was very traumatic evidence, the law was complicated because there was multiple parties."
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