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To: Rheo

Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for the link.


76 posted on 03/07/2007 9:33:31 AM PST by saveliberty (Liberalism (called Middle of the Road by MSM) = You are free to do as you are told.)
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To: saveliberty

No problem.

This link shows that there was actually another WAPO reporter but she was dismissed. The jury selection was horrible. Defense must have felt altho this Collins was a big risk, he would remain open minded??

http://www.slate.com/id/2157695/entry/2157880/


79 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:02 AM PST by Rheo
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To: saveliberty; All

The first four days of questioning created a pool of potential jurors. From that pool, defense attorneys could strike 10 jurors, and prosecuting attorneys could exclude six. Lawyers could use those peremptory challenges without explaining their reasoning. Each side also had the power to chuck two alternates.

The process for discarding jurors was opaque. The lawyers didn't say out loud who they wanted cast off. Instead they handed the clerk a list, and she read it with no indication of which side sent the ejection order. The prosecution presumably struck the two women who said they had a hard time believing anyone would lie. The defense team presumably got rid of the man whose wife worked as a criminal prosecutor, since he might have sympathy for Patrick Fitzgerald's team.
http://www.slate.com/id/2157695/entry/2158028/

Just FYI's as I didn't know this either.


82 posted on 03/07/2007 9:41:23 AM PST by Rheo
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