Posted on 04/04/2014 9:28:28 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
The names of the six-member jury panel that acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have been made public for the first time, after a new court order, records show.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who had previously ordered the jurors' identifying information be kept confidential, granted access to the names in a ruling March 21.
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When I look at the White House now, it's like reading what was written on the old flat earth sea chart maps: "Here there be dragons"
Yep, acolytes of the evil red dragon from Revelation. By their fruits ye shall know them.
INDEED.
If the judges action was not illegal it darned well should be.
it is constitutional to have the jury public. (public trial and all that)
Remember the LEFT WING media wanted these names to continue the t-shirt sales.
The problem isn’t that the names were released. The problem is that the people harassing or threatening them will not be prosecuted.
Bravo.
I don’t think the secret jury applies here. George knew who they were and he had a chance to face them.
This action will endanger these people.
public trial with a jury of your peers.
who opposed the media?
Possibly Illegal Intimidation..but gross intimidation at any rate does not further our society whatsoever.
Im disgusted and saddened by this fiasco
Like with Spike Lee? I read that the innocent people who were harrassed and threatened thanks to his calls for street justice received a large settlement from him-I hope it’s true.
I don’t understand your question. Nobody really opposed the media, at least not anyone in any official capacity.
Indeed Indeed! and Amen!
George had a public trial. He faced his jury and his accusers (the state).
Juries are not accusers.
Will Spike Lee be tweeting their home addresses?
Constitutionally, you have a right to face your accuser “IN THE TRIAL”. That’s it. Jurors are not the accusers.
Attorneys vet the jurors. That’s when your team gets to select the right people. There is no legal or otherwise obligation for the jurors to be identified further than Jurist 6 et al.
This is all about intimidation. If the media swoops in on these folks, the message will be loud and clear, “You either rule as the Leftists want, or you will be found guilty and punished severely.”
This is a very chilling outcome for jurists, on a case that has had over the top intimidation as a factor since day one.
I suspect your question will soon be seen as prophetic.
Zimmerman’s attorneys only asked for six months as a ‘cooling off period’ and
this is some eight months now. It would have gone longer had not the Sentinel asked
for the names to be released.
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN had the right to face his accusers, which BTW do not include the jury. Even if he had the right to face the jury, he did so in open court. Keep in mind that Zimmerman was the accused in the case. It wasn’t him requesting that the jury members’ identities be made pbulic.
There is no constitutional right for ANYONE to learn the identities of a jury. What possible good can come from publicly revealing their identites?
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