Posted on 02/26/2007 6:57:45 AM PST by PhatHead
They just said on Fox News that the juror who was dismissed was a museum curator.
I understand that the alternate juror they would have put on the jury sat with her arms folded and rolled her eyes during the defense summation. Small wonder the defense didn't want her on the jury.
I'm going to be chuckling for the next half-hour over that one.
A hung jury is something of a victory for Libby. No way will they retry him.
"I understand that the alternate juror they would have put on the jury sat with her arms folded and rolled her eyes during the defense summation. Small wonder the defense didn't want her on the jury."
BINGO. I don't think not going with an alternate has any bearing on how the attorneys think it's going. It's simply about the alternate.
The problem here is not mens rea but an actual problem of what is possible, likely or anticipated when one questions about former events. I can not fathom how the Court could do this without resorting to actual, current state-of-the-art knowledge on memory.
it was.
And they dismissed the only conservative juror on the panel who would not vote "Gulity"?
Hey, the dems are counting their chads again.
Buahahahahahahaha!
The jury system is wonderful. You have the collective intelligence of a dozen people ( in most cases). Only problem with the jury system is when the jury pool only contains the dumbed down people (those people that have not read about a case), or a high concentration of poor or uneducated people (O.J case).
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Fitzgerald gets paid as long as this goes on. He has an economic interest in retrying Libby.
Good call. Do you know if Scooter moved for a mistrial before agreeing to go with 11?
UPDATE per MSNBC/Shuster: room where jury is in has power .. they're ok, but the judge's courtroom has no power. Hallways are dark .. lawyers' rooms are dark .. they're all walking in the darkened hallways.
Jury deliberations continue.
I haven't seen anything about the defense moving for a mistrial.
I'm absolutely convinced that when Russert claimed he knew it was "huge" that Wilson's wife was mentioned in Novak's column, his memory was - exactly as Loftus described - reading back into an event a realization from a later point in time. Plame only became "huge" later, when Wilson and reporters concocted the "outing" theory. Originally, it was just some mildly interesting background on how Wilson was chosen for the trip.
Scooter's lawyer WANTED to continue with only 11.
You know the conspiracy nuts at DU are saying just the opposite. They're convinced the woman would've voted to convict. Either that or the woman was a GOP plant trying to have a mistrial declared. I'm guessing you have more information that your average conspiracy theorist? FWIW, the woman is an art historian who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...hardly a wing of the VRWC. How many art history majors (especially those whose jobs depend on public funding), are likely to be conservative?
Cindie
Scooter's team sounds pretty confident to me.
To correct myself, it was Schachter, not Loftus, who wrote that our memory confuses time, and often attributes knowledge learned after the fact to an earlier point in time.
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