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Jury in Cape murder ordered back to court
Boston Globe ^ | November 30, 2007 | Jonathan Saltzman

Posted on 11/30/2007 5:00:44 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

More than a year after they convicted a black trash collector of raping and murdering a white fashion writer, members of a Cape Cod jury will have to return to court - and this time, they will be on the witness stand.

In an extraordinary hearing scheduled Jan. 10 and 11 at Barnstable Superior Court, each of the jurors - including a woman who will be flown in from Texas - will be questioned under oath in open court by a judge about whether racially insensitive remarks allegedly made during more than a week of deliberations tainted the verdict against Christopher M. McCowen.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: capecod; mccowen; murdder; murder; worthington

1 posted on 11/30/2007 5:00:46 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

unbelievable!


2 posted on 11/30/2007 5:03:56 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: al baby; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; Finger Monkey; ...
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"Tard" refers to the ping list members and not to the subject of the thread!

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3 posted on 11/30/2007 5:08:59 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Disgusting, isn’t it?


4 posted on 11/30/2007 5:15:00 PM PST by Andy'smom
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

They would have to have a SWAT team drag me back in, kicking and screaming all the way...


5 posted on 11/30/2007 5:19:52 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: Andy'smom

Do you know if Howie Carr talked about this? I missed his show today.


6 posted on 11/30/2007 5:22:07 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Or a Contempt of Court citation. ;-)


7 posted on 11/30/2007 5:26:34 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: EveningStar

In this case, Tard refers to what’s happened in this case.


8 posted on 11/30/2007 5:29:05 PM PST by Shimmer
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

OMG!


9 posted on 11/30/2007 5:32:55 PM PST by Rte66
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To: EveningStar

How is describing him as a 200 pound black man considered a racist comment?

He is a 200 pound black man. That is a fact...unless he lost or gained weight in prison.

And it is a well known fact that black people cannot be racist so that leave the black man off the hook....ooops....I guess that sentence make ME a racist.


10 posted on 11/30/2007 5:34:59 PM PST by Feiny (Fruitloops are Gay Cheerios)
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To: feinswinesuksass; All
He was convicted on DNA evidence and was already known as "a convicted felon with a long history of violent and threatening behavior toward women."

Cape Cod Murder Mystery Solved

Garbage collector tried in death of Cape Cod writer Christa Worthington

11 posted on 11/30/2007 6:03:58 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
If a white defendant was called "fatass" in the Jury Room, would that require a re-trial?

Inquiring minds want to know!

12 posted on 11/30/2007 6:11:14 PM PST by traditional1 (Thompson/Hunter '08)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

No. I heard most of his show, it was about the news in New Hampshire.


13 posted on 12/01/2007 3:38:09 AM PST by Andy'smom
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