FROM A CITIZEN WATCHING THE TRIAL:
First Day at the trial was for jury selection.... interesting process.
The trial started with 65 jurors being brought in to the courtroom, with 18 seated in the jurybox for questions from the judge. The idea wasto start with 18, each side could disqualify 4, ending up with a jury of 10. Roger’s attorneys brought in two gals as jury consultants to help decide who to eliminate. I made my picks and after lunch, the lawyers had a pow-wow and the decision of who to eliminate was made.
Interestingly, 4 of the jurors were dismissed when the question was asked by the judge..... “ Do any of you have a problem with the fact that even though someone is illegally in this country, they still have a right to bring a lawsuit.?” Interesting because 3 our of 4 were Hispanics!
Kind of blows away the idea that Hispanics would be for illegal immigration. Ifeel we ended up with a pretty good jury.... about50-50 male and female. One Hispanic gal’s husband works for Wackenhut... I figured they would eliminate her but they didn’t .... along with a male computer programmer who belongs to the NRA.
I think there were about 10 of the Plaintiffs in the courtroom.... a couple more will show up today..... I think they couldn’t find four. The Illegal Alien’s evidently were accompanied by two US Marshalls.... in the courtroom at the request of the judge. The judge cautioned the jurors about potential demonstrations outside the courthouse today and I believe the Marshalls will be there for possibility that something would occur inside the courtroom.
The Plantiffs’s lawyers went first..... the usual BS about these are human beings.... Roger makes sport about hunting human beings..... they all feared for their lives and have had daily bouts of Post Traumatic Syndrome since Roger pointed a gun at their heads and threatened to kill them all (which a high paid psychatrist will testify to). They also stressed how poor the the Plaintiffs are, coming here for a “better way of life”..... at the same time stressing that this lawsuit “is not about money”..... its about punishing Roger’s behavior.
The Plaintiff’s attorney’s opening statements seemed pursuasive at first..... what a “bad ass” Roger is. He was maintaining a”militia”, hates anybody with Latino decent, harbors “racial animus”, has a vicious dog, speaks extremely foul language, and maintains his ranch as a compound for the “sport” of hunting people...... and the plaintiffs, who were just out for a Sunday afternoon stroll, were accosted by Roger for no cause....and he brutally accosted and traumatized them. Roger, Don & Barbara had long conspired to violate the Plaintiff’s civil rights... and the rights of all Latinos that crossed their paths.
Hell.... I would have convicted Roger at that point!
Well, you can imagine my delight when it was Roger’s attorney’s turn. They had BIG poster pictures of all the garbage on Roger’s land........ big poster pictures of large groups of aliens “posing & smiling” for pictures with Roger (he is such a bad ass.... its a game to
them).... big poster pictures of LARGE stacks
Roger’s attorneys then proceeded to portray Roger as the victim of a conspiracy.... a conspiracy by the Plaintiff’s attorneys to “take Rogerout”, because the lawsuit was “all about money”.... money that the drug cartels and the Mexican Government are losing every time Roger turns a group in to the Border Patrol...... $20k in just that one group.... over 1 million for the 12,000 aliens Roger claims to have turned in to the Border Patrol. In one fell swoop, Rogers’ attorneys planted the idea with the jurists of another conspiracy going on in this trial which will put the Plainitff’s attorney’s on trial themselves during the trial. Brilliant !
And you could imagine my delight when Roger’s attorney responded to the ideal that the Plaintiffs were so traumatized by their 15 minutes with Roger while waiting for the BP agent to show up (who had been tracking the group and was within a mile of the party), that they...TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THE TRAUMA OF BEING ROBBED AT GUNPOINT THE
NIGHT BEFORE... AND THE WOMEN IN THE GROUP BEING RAPED BY BANDIDOS !
Stay tuned folk.... is going to be an interesting duel.
From down in the trenches......
It just slow down the dance for socialism and the NWO.
“”FROM A CITIZEN WATCHING THE TRIAL:””
Super - Please keep us to date here at FR....
bttt
Thanks for that account, radar101.
“One Hispanic gal’s husband works for Wackenhut... I figured they would eliminate her but they didn’t”
Wackenhut....the private prison system that makes big bucks storing illegal aliens...and gives out some of the biggest campaign contributions for their open border politicos...like John McCain.
Unless, of course, you actually know Roger. Too bad they won't let me sit on that jury. I could easily refute every word from the plaintiffs' attorney.
Same message that the Mexican government wanted Sutton to send to the BP with the prosecution of Ramos and Compean.
By the way, isn't Arpaio arresting people by the dozens up in Maricopa county under the new state law that makes the inmigrantes co-conspirators with the coyote?
And doesn't that law make ALL the plaintiffs suspected criminals under Arizona STATE law? Well, actually I don't think the law was passed when this happened, and ex post facto and all that, but....what would be their standing to sue now?
Don't worry. A judge would say the burglar can sue you for trying to stop him. On we go into the Looking Glass...
I just had one of those random thoughts...while working out an exchange in my mind...(I know, keep this up and I’ll have no mind left!)
When a rancher leases land from the Federal Gov’t, doesn’t he enter into a contract wherein he is expected to be a good steward of that land? And doesn’t that then make him an agent of the Federal Gov’t to protect that land from encroachment and damage?
That would seem to me then to prefer a duty upon the lessee to detain those who are abusing the leased land. And, judging from your description of the condition of the land after illegals move through, they are indeed abusing the land.
I dunno, just a thought...