What if Zimmerman Gets an All White Jury?

The Hutchinson Report News ^ | April 25, 2012 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson

[Reagan69]

A jury of his peers !

Of course, doctors don’t get fair trials in med mal cases with the right of a jury of their peers.

[SampleMan]

Hispanic shoots black and gets tried by whites?

Sounds neutral to me. Seriously though, I resent the hell out of the notion that whites are de facto racists.

[RegulatorCountry]

Impanel a jury consisting entirely of Seminole. Remove the whole black/white dynamic from the picture. They're the closest thing you're going to find to his peers there, being native and mixed. Fairly conservative on some matters, too, they've refused to play the mascot grievance game and are quite proud for Florida State to bear their name as a mascot.

[6SJ7]

The idiot writing this article seems to have an underlying concern that Zimmerman might “escape” being made a sacrifice to “racial justice”. To that end the author is obviously willing to toss out legal procedures such as preemptory challenges all for the sake of “diversity”... when it suits his purpose.

[SaraJohnson]

Unless Zimmerman is railroaded into a conviction for second degree murder by a stacked jury, Obama’s unleashed racists are going to do violence against their race enemy - whites, and the country they hate - America.

[Venturer]

I was in Washington DC during the riots.

Like you said the rioters burned their own neighborhood down.

Washingtons small Chinatown was only 3 blocks from the burning buildings on 7th. street N.W., not a window was broken in Chinatown.

[Mycroft Holmes]

With 11% of the jury pool black and a random selection of six jurors, the probability of a non-black jury is 0.497, or about half the time. With 12 jurors it's 0.247, or about a quarter of the time.

Of course, the beauty of these pure numbers will be sullied by politics.

[Altura Ct.]

And what if that jury is all white?

And what if it was all black?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Was that the 1967 riots in Detroit?

[USS Alaska]

I was ten years old and standing on the roof of our house with my father during the Detroit riots watching large swaths of downtown burn.

During the black riots I was working for Burroughs Corporation, then headquartered in Detroit and while there witnessed one of our secretaries killed by a stray bullet.

My wife and two kids were back in PIttsburgh and when I returned home my wife laid down an edict.

We were moving out of the city. Period.

We bought a home in a neighboring county and never looked back.

The next black riot will see ten of thousands of white people with guns, resisting the rioters.

[jboot]

Thugs, rioters and punks always go for the easy pickings. Keep your powder dry my friends.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is tied to the Baltimore riots. We lived waaaay out beyond the burbs, but a little brawl fired up in our town anyway. A couple stores had fires set and a street was briefly blocked. I didn't see all that because I was just a little kid. What I did see was my grandfather methodically loading M1 carbine mags on the dining room table. A shotgun was staged at each entrance and I was carefully forbidden to even go near them. I was futher forbidden to play outside or on the sun porch. My mom was beside herself because dad was in the National Guard and we thought he had been called up for armed patrol in Baltimore. It was a very scary day. As it turned out, nothing happened. The local nonsense petered out on its own and dad wasn't called up because he was on nuclear duty at the time (Maryland ANG controlled the Baltimore Nike missile bases).

Twenty-five years later I was surveying in Baltimore and the crew drove through a burned-out block. I was shocked when the party chief told me that those buildings has burned in the riots when I was a kid. They were still standing in the ninieties, untouched and uninhabited. It was eerie.

[Jim Noble]

It's amazing how, in cases like this, the heart of the adversarial system is cut out.

The PURPOSE of a jury of Zimmerman's peers IS TO BE FAIR TO ZIMMERMAN.

Trayvon has an advocate in the room, he's called the PROSECUTOR.

The SYSTEM is "unfair to Trayvon", because the BURDEN OF PROOF is on the State, NOT on Zimmerman.

[Verginius Rufus]

If Zimmerman is tried before an all-white jury, it will like the fictitious trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, where the black defendant was tried before an all-white jury.

[Lionheartusa1]

The prosecution gets to pick 6 and there's no way they will allow a jury with no blacks on it . Having said that ,,, this might only lead to a hung jury where other non-minority jurors may vote to acquit . I believe Zim’s best bet is simply with a Judge in lieu of a jury since the prosecutor has over charged him . I'd get Alan Dershewitz as my probono lawyer and he'd win for sure with a judge instead of a jury .

[Lionheartusa1]

The prosecution gets to pick 6 and there's no way they will allow a jury with no blacks on it . Having said that ,,, this might only lead to a hung jury where other non-minority jurors may vote to acquit . I believe Zim’s best bet is simply with a Judge in lieu of a jury since the prosecutor has over charged him . I'd get Alan Dershewitz as my probono lawyer and he'd win for sure with a judge instead of a jury .

[sarge83]

Zimmerman will face a federal trial if acquitted at the state trial level and I say if these idiots want to burn themselves out fine, live in the gutter if you are that damn stupid. Try and burn out the civilized folk and face various calipers of rifle, handgun and shotgun fire incoming.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Florida juries contain only 6 members, from what I’m reading about this case.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mr. Zimmerman is black, it turns out.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Florida juries consist of 6 members, not 12, as I understand it.