Posted on 12/06/2005 12:40:23 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
From a FL resident: Miami's Cubans are pretty conservative, but the ex snowbirds from the NE are not.
Most in the North of Florida are conservatve.
Dems are around the big cities as is so apparent on the county by county Red State/Blue State map.
We are all not stupid in FL, just the Dems, even though they almost succeeded in queering the elections.
He can appear with Scott Ritter.
BTTT
I am not claiming it is liberalism. It is EVIL. Btw, it was a conservative district that re-elected Judge Greer (of Schiavo case infamy) a year after he denied a woman's repeated pleas for a restraining order when her husband threated to murder her (he then did just that).
I get your point.
But not all the evidence against Al Arian was admitted.
Yes, CO is becoming increasingly liberal because of the CA transplants. They infect all that they touch. They are like a disease, or a cancer.
What lawyers? Those representing the State and the Defense? And the judge allowed them?
Al-Arian Juror Says Enough
12/6/05 3:03:03 PM
TAMPA - A juror in the terrorist-support trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other defendants told the judge Tuesday that the pressure to conform with other jurors is too great and that "I’ve had all my nerves can take."
In a note to the judge, the juror stated: "I'm sorry to say at this time I can no longer deliberate under the conditions you put forth. Being that I'm in the minority I feel like I'm being whipped to change and I'm not alone. My nerves and my conscience are being whipped into submission. I'm sorry I've had all my nerves can take."
After receiving the note, U.S. District Judge James Moody recessed the court for a brief time. It's expected the jurors will be issued new verdict forms so they can present verdicts in the charges they agree on.
The judge then, at 2:50 p.m., posed two questions to the jurors: "Do you unanimously agree that you can continue deliberations and make progress without anyone feeling pressure?"
Then the judge repeated the instructions, in slightly different form: "Do you feel like further deliberation will be helpful resolving this case without anyone feeling pressure?"
Jurors on Monday told the court that they have reached unanimous verdicts on two of the defendants, but could not agree on the other two defendants.
-- Tampa Tribune
Of course, not!
The Founders, in their wisdom, realized our culture would be burned out by now. That's why they added the Bill of Rights as a suicide pact. [/sarcasm]
Another glaring example of why the justice system is not the tool to use when you are at war. This POS has American blood on his hands, he should be transferred to gitmo.
Ok. I heard this same thing on a CSPAN Republican conference over the weekend. That the Dems are so focused on Bush that they care about NOTHING else. Lightning rod like Gingrich became. I'm as close to a Bushbot as it gets, but does it make sense at some point to dump him to get the Bush Haters back on America's side?
Some of them are indeed America haters, but some of them may just be blinded by rage against Bush personally and will sacrifice their country to get rid of him.
I'm starting to think I would rather have McPain as president and them on America's side than Bush/Cheney drawing more fragging from within.
[donning flamesuit]
TAMPA -- A former Florida professor was acquitted on a key charge today that he helped lead a Palestinian terrorist group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel. In one of the biggest courtroom tests yet of the Patriot Act's expanded search and surveillance powers, the jury acquitted Sami Al-Arian of eight of the 17 counts against him, including a charge of conspiring to maim and murder people overseas. The jury deadlocked on the others including charges he aided terrorists. Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer engineering professor, wept after the verdicts and his attorney, Linda Moreno hugged him. He will remain jailed until prosecutors decide whether retry him on the deadlocked counts. Co-defendants Sameeh Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut were acquitted of all charges against them. Another, Hatem Naji Fariz, was found not guilty of 24 counts and jurors deadlocked on the remaining eight.
Strikes me as too many counts. An awful lot, anyway. I wonder if the prosecutor didn't mount up an overly-complex trial... ended up confusing the jury.
I've made some not-entirely-serious and slightly outrageous comments in this venue. BUT, if I ever came to the point you suggest, I would lock and load instead of dumping a good man overboard. About that, I am serious.
Hopefully GITMO.
God bless President Bush.
I was being sarcastic.
I suspect that very few of us have even followed the case closely enough to summarize the evidence (as opposed to the allegations), let alone ridicule the verdict. One of the most difficult aspects of trial law is when the lawyers fall in love with their case and fail to view the evidence through the eyes of potential jurors. Maybe the evidence was never that strong to begin with or the judge made some rulings that limited the evidence or the trial team sucked like in the OJ Simpson and William Kennedy Smith cases or the jury just didn't like the prosecuting attorney or the evidence was too complicated for the jury to follow or any number of other reasons, including the innocence of the defendants.
Any details?
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