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That doesn't explain why there's a ban on reporting his arrest, though. Also, the judge has the option of sequestering the jury; cutting them off from all outside information and putting them in a hotel under close supervision.
I don't know anything about that, that's getting too far from American jurisprudence for me to speculate. I feel okay on very broad stuff because our common law principles have the same background reasoning as theirs. As you get into the application of things that turn on more modern media and stuff, it becomes too difficult to guess.
As for sequestering the jury, that's kind of pointless if the individual is standing in front of the courthouse itself. The jury is essentially forced to pass the individual and those affected by the individual on their way into the building.
Part of the issue appears to be that Mr. Robinson thought the verdict was in and it's not, so his timing is off.