What's Your Verdict - Mark Lundy

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2005

In 2002 Mark Lundy was convicted of murdering his wife Christine and daughter Amber two years prior. The brutality of the crime and the nature of the evidence made it one of New Zealand’s most covered — and contentious — criminal cases. This high-rating documentary sees lawyer Greg King guiding a mock jury through the evidence over one day, to see if they reach the same verdict. The jury, hailing from all walks of life, find it difficult to reach a consensus as strong personalities clash on opposing sides of the debate. After appealing to the Privy Council in London, Lundy got a real life retrial in 2015, and was again found guilty.

I would have had to be in that courtroom and seen the man, and the police and all the other people that were giving evidence to make up my mind.
– A mock juror reveals the difficulty of giving a verdict without the realities of a trial