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... Following are short profiles of the 12 jurors and six alternates. ...

Alternate 1 — A white man in his late 40s or 50s who is both an attorney and a doctor. He works with a medical company that makes medications for heart patients. He advises them on legal issues, but has never practiced criminal law.

Alternate 2 — A white woman in her 30s with nine tattoos and four sons. She is willing to quit her bank job to serve on the jury, and told her partner he would have to support her. Her brother was in and out of prison for drugs, leading her mother to become a drug counselor at a methadone clinic.

Alternate 3 — A retired white man in his 50s or 60s whose future son-in-law owns The Shack, the San Luis Obispo restaurant once owned by Scott and Laci Peterson. The man is an avid boater, but said he is not very familiar with the Berkeley Marina, where prosecutors say Scott took Laci's body to dump it. He said he had not followed the case, and believed there was no direct evidence against Scott.

Alternate 4 — A white woman in her 40s whose husband believes Peterson is guilty. She said she had told him that everyone deserves his day in court. She watched some of the USA Network movie on the Peterson case, but said she got bored. When asked what she thought of stealth jurors, she expressed anger, saying, "This is somebody's life. It's not a game."

Alternate 5 — A white woman in her 60s who, until her recent retirement, worked in a human resources department. Her duties included mediating job disputes and she says she's accustomed to listening to both sides. She had a grandchild taken from her by his other set of grandparents and did not see him for almost five years, but the situation was eventually resolved. She doesn't know a lot about the case because she watches PBS.

Alternate 6 — A white British-born professional in his 50s who works for a city department that was involved in planning for the Peterson trial. He deals occasionally with both police and media, but said it wouldn't affect him. He said he doesn't read crime news and could put aside what little he had heard about the case to judge Peterson fairly.

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