B-51 
Posted on 06/20/2013 8:03:26 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
B-51 is retired, not married and doesn't have kids. She has lived in Seminole County for nine years. She has worked in real estate and run a call center where she said she had experience resolving conflicts. When asked if Zimmerman did something wrong by following Martin instead of waiting for police, she said: "Yeah, I guess he did do something wrong."
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B-29 recently moved to central Florida from Chicago. She enjoys watching the "Real Housewives" on television and works as a nurse on an Alzheimer's section of a nursing home. She said she hadn't paid much attention to the shooting. She said she has been arrested, but her case was disposed of. It's not clear why she was arrested or exactly what happened to her case, though she said she was treated fairly. She is married and has several children. A prosecutor described her as "black or Hispanic" during jury selection.
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I admire your fortitude.
I don’t know the answer. i know jury selection went on for some time.
Wasn’t Zimmerman allowed to get a lawyer? He obviously needs one.
I don’t think either side used up all their objections.
B-51
That was my point...women being notoriously emotional vis a vis rational...and issues of PMS. :D
... and I agree to the max!
Famous prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's book, "Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder" makes a very convincing case that the prosecution in the Simpson trial led by Marcia Clark and Chris Darden was utterly incompetent, and that Judge Lance Ito was not far behind. The jury was never informed of the most compelling evidence against Simpson. Jury racism might have been present, but it was not necessary to produce that obscene verdict.
“with that collection he might as well plead guilty!”
I wouldn’t agree with your assessment. Most women I know LOVE a good story and will delve into the facts, and dare I say, the minutia of every facet of possible inquiry. And if they think you’re lying to them or patronizing them in any way, forget about it.
Zimmerman only needs to be represented on the jury by one. He will be fine.
I think they summoned 500.
A retired judge did the initial review of questionnaires, which eliminated somewhere near a hundred. There was then a preliminary voir dire limited to just the issue of publicity, and forty prospects were chosen at that stage. The 40 then went through a second round and the final ten were chosen from them.
So, 30 rejected at the final stage, around a hundred all told for sure. I don’t know whether the retired judge went through all the questionnaires after it became apparent they could find a jury without having to interview all of them.
You’re right. Three by prosecution, one by defense, I believe. The days when you could just arbitrarily toss out someone you didn’t like the looks of (in other words, the days when peremptory challenges were truly peremptory), are gone. You now have to convince the judge that you have a race-neutral reason for your challenge. After the prosecution threw out four white women in a row, the judge put two of them back on.
Note, however, there was one criminal conviction arising from that trial.
On October 2, 1996, the lead detective on the case, Mark Fuhman, plead no contest to a perjury charge for lying about his use of the N-word. LOL! He is the only person to have been convicted of criminal charges related to the Simpson case. $200, three years on probation. And OJ walked!
Furhman was in the chain of custody of the evidence. He was the excuse the jury needed.
I think you can put Gil Garcetti’s meddling on that list. There was a big concern about not repeating the “mistakes” of the King trial that impacted the whole effort.
The case should have been tried in Santa Monica, by the best prosecutor, and when Johhny C. started mumbling about racism in jury selection, they should have ignored him and followed usual procedure. Instead, they let him pack the jury, didn’t resist letting Ito get “played”, and even botched their execution of political correctness. I read Vince’s Book along with most of the others, he pretty much nailed it.
Right up there near the top, though, I’d have to put Robbery/Homicide transporting the suspect’s blood sample from the station back to the crime scene. The sucker should have gone right into the evidence room and stayed there ‘til it got transported to the lab by an officer or employee entirely uninvolved with the investigation.
Agree with all you said in #17!!!
“Song of the South” is my favorite movie memory from when I was a young boy. Nothing racist about it!
I agree. I liked Song of the South too. But Disney will not release it either in theaters or DVD due to political correctness..
Each side has 10 strikes.
I wasn’t going to JUDGE these selected jurors before the trial. They are who they are and what they will do, no one can say.
By now, I’m sure you have noticed the photo of the B-29 is missing. That means the B-51 wins by default.
It seems the B-51 was not widely used. It was a pretty bird, derived from plans from German aircraft manufacturers and designers. Most of our military planes were modeled after German designs from the Hitler era.
I saw a B-29 last Saturday. It flew over and circled the event I was attending. Great to see.
Jury selection is like a very long chess game. And it’s mostly boring.
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