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.
Can you provide a link for these statements? I did a Google search and came up with nothing.
Excellent idea. No one can stop them from talking about it but ‘for profit’ - there should be some ruling.