Posted on 07/11/2011 6:04:29 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
The woman, known only as juror number 12 left her job and went into hiding fearing co-workers would 'want her head on a platter'.
Her husband said before leaving she told him: 'I’d rather go to jail than sit on a jury like this again.'
He told NBC News he was worried for her health and had his bags packed ready to leave if his 60-year-old wife's name gets released.
The woman, who moved to Florida from Michigan fled the area, retiring from her job working at Publix Grocery over the phone because she didn't feel safe.
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Is that your argument that you are rational?
Excellent.
In these cases the Media should make the call and get to televise the execution. The state could have a lottery for who gets to light the fire. At the least we should change reasonable doubt. The Defense should have the Burden of proof. Those tricky Defense Lawyers get away with too much. If the Defendant had to prove his innocence it would be a lot easier to convict them. Why should the State have to prove it?
So, let's see.....a mom and her three-year old daughter walk into a building together. A short time later, the mom is seen leaving the building alone. She goes to see some friends, goes out dancing, and gets a tattoo, and then engages in similar behavior for the next 30 days. She never shows any sign that she's worried about her daughter, who hasn't been seen since the mom left the building alone on the first day. After thirty days, other family members report the child missing.
Six months later, law enforcement finally searches the building and finds the daughter's dead body, arranged neatly in a corner of a closet wrapped in the child's favorite blanket. The body is so decomposed that toxicology tests don't generate any usable results. Law enforcement questions the mother, who tells them that the child has been at camp for six months. When police officers search the mother's home, they find traces of arsenic along with Internet searches on the home computer (dated prior to the child's disappearance) for terms like "killing with arsenic" and "arsenic poisoning."
Police arrest the mother once they find out that the camp she told them about doesn't even exist. She is charged with first-degree murder.
What's the verdict?
One of the jurors, a male unidentified, was offered 50k for an interview. He refused holding out for more. It’s also been reported another juror sought out a publicist once she found out she was picked for this jury and that it was the Anthony case.
Their actions should be disturbing to even those who believe green men from mars killed Caylee (why not aliens? More credible than anything Baez offered).
On twitter there was talk of petitioning our government to pass a federal law making it against the law for any juror to profit from a case, guilty or not. The argument being how can the public feel confident a jury is deliberating in the best interest of society and following the law if they have a plan to profit from a case.
It’s doubtful such a law would hold up to constitutional muster (free speech issue among others) still it would be more reassuring to the public and those on trial if they were assured a jury of their peers did not have ulterior motives. Given that a law would not hold up it becomes up to the public to assure people do not profit by not supporting any product offered up. If nothing else good comes out of this trial maybe this will be it.
You complain of being attacked when you use the word MOB on FRiends? Methinks thou dost protest foolishly.
That is a good idea. The FBI might do a real investigation. But now it is too late because Ashton and the Orlando Police Bungled it. There lies the blame.
Do you know where I can find that thread/link? I'd like to send it around.
Have you heard anyone involved in this case with a Southern accent?
Amen
Give it a rest. I get it. You're saying if you were on the jury, you would have voted along with the rest of them.
If you think this woman, who never reported that her baby was missing, deserves to walk free, that's on you.
Obviously no one is going to convince you that she should have been convicted.
A majority of us who watched the trial do not think there was reasonable doubt.
First of all they knew this was going to be the case. Secondly it does not negate their responsibilities as jurors. A friend of mine was on a murder case. She was shocked and angered by some juror’s attitude. They wanted to go home, a lot of fighting in the room and power plays going on. She always wanted to serve on one, but would eat glass before doing it again. The stress was overwelming she said.
Were there any other people in the building when the mother took her daughter in there or was it easily accessible? Was there evidence of how the child died or when?
Those would be important questions that I would have.
She’s safer than Caylee ever was
Excuse me, dirtdiver, but I watched every minute of that trial that I could, I read every piece of evidence that was available, and I have a pretty good idea of what happened. I know enough to know that it’s not reasonable to think that the mother didn’t kill the child. Any jury who thought that was a reasonable conclusion simply didn’t look at the facts, or they engaged in wild speculation slanted by things that were said by lawyers which were not in evidence. The evidence pointed to the mother’s guilt, period.
Screaminsunshine doesn’t recognize his/her own mob tendencies. Kind of funny to watch.
I am talking about the discussion. We are adults. Just saying the jury spoke so just shut up move on isn't going to cut it. A gross miscarriage of justice seems to have taken place. A murdered child and no suspects. She was aquitted right? So who did it? We are not confined to any limits set by you or anyone else. No mob, no pitchforks. We the people just want to know.
FRiends don’t slander Americans who we’re trying to do the right thing.
FRiends don’t advocate hanging jurors.
FRiends don’t tell Americans they aren’t welcome in their state.
MOBs do though.
I used to live in South Florida, Broward county.
Every year in the winter, hordes of NY, NJ and PA license plates were on the roads everywhere you went. Summertime wasn’t as bad, but still there were places you would swear you had been transported to NY by magic. Complaints about everything ‘down here’ were the norm. Everything ‘back home’ was so great.....................
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