Posted on 10/27/2021 4:45:38 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
8 potential jurors advance in Ahmaud Arbery slaying trial
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — "A judge found eight potential jurors qualified to advance Tuesday following intense questioning aimed at finding an impartial jury for the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, whose slaying last year sparked a national outcry.
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, are charged with murder and other crimes in the 25-year-old Black man’s death after a cellphone video of the Feb. 23, 2020, killing was leaked online two months later.
Two of those qualified Tuesday said they know some of the defendants. One said his father is a longtime prosecutor who worked with Greg McMichael before the defendant retired as an investigator for the local district attorney shortly before Arbery was killed.
“He’s a friend of my father’s and he’s been over to our house multiple times,” the man said.
The other said her husband and father-in-law know Bryan.
Defense attorneys insist the three men committed no crimes. Greg McMichael told police they believed Arbery was a burglar after security cameras previously recorded him entering a nearby home under construction. He said Travis McMichael fired in self-defense after Arbery punched him and tried to grab his weapon."
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Defense managed to qualify this guy during voir dire! Wow.
“The eight people deemed qualified to serve won’t necessarily be seated on the final jury. They just weren’t among those found to have hardened opinions on the case, or with hardships that made jury service an unfair burden. Prosecutors and the defense will take turns striking qualified pool members in order to arrive at the final jury.”
Guilty of self-defense while White.
The mere idea that the prosecutor did not use a pre-emptive strike against a "longtime prosecutor who worked with Greg McMichael" is schadenfreudic beyond belief! You have to understand how voir dire works. This is someone who plausibly knew of Barnhill's on-point letter!
And yet the prosecution let him slide, when this was a textbook pre-emptive strike. Even if he doesn't make the jury, he could still make the alternate pool, and the prosecution's opportunity to dq him is gone.
"Dear Ms Crittendon and McGowan: |
The fact that the DA is facing federal charges for declining to prosecute initially is all the evidence you need to see this as railroading.
If someone chased you down and pulled a gun on you, what would you do?
I wouldn’t be stealing from a construction site, so it’s not a hypothetical I would ever have to consider.
LOL! I think I understand just a little about how voir dire works. LOL!
First, it’s a “peremptory challenge”, not a “pre-emptive” strike.
The jury selection process in Georgia is a little different in the details than in other States. The first step in the process is getting “competent” jurors. Challenges for cause in Georgia are governed by § 15-12-163 and § 15-12-164 and in that respect, they are more limited than in other States.
“O.C.G.A. § 15-12-164 establishes the test for disqualification for favor, and the reference in O.C.G.A. § 15-12-133 to “the usual voir dire questions . . . put by the court” is to O.C.G.A. § 15-12-164, insofar as felony trials are concerned.” Jordan v. State, 247 Ga. 328, (1981).
“In order to disqualify a juror for cause it must be established that the juror’s opinion is so fixed that it will not be changed by the evidence or charge of the court upon the evidence.” Westbrook v. State, 242 Ga. 151 (1978).
Only after a panel of 30 is qualified (42 in a Death Penalty case) each side gets 9 peremptory challenges, unless its a death penalty case, in which case each side gets 15.
So they haven’t yet reached that stage of the process yet. They are still trying to empanel the 30 jurors.
What if you were just meandering around and thought guilty of a crime by some idiot with a gun? Would you not defend yourself?
is this the jogging in work boots thief?
No, because resisting arrest is never a good idea. If you’re being placed under arrest, then you have to accept that you are being detained. You don’t get to do trial by combat to determine whether or not you’re being arrested.
What did he steal? He was running away on foot. Can’t haul much away while running from construction site.
Resisting arrest? Were these on duty cops? Or yahoos in a pickup?
He wasn’t confronted by police and not being arrested.
Georgia used to allow citizens to detain people until Kemp repealed the law this year.
They were yahoos in a pick up truck. The State of Georgia and the Federal Government is about to make a believer out of them. It being the State of Georgia, the Jury might walk them. But I seriously doubt it. Regardless of what happens at the State level, the Feds are going to pick them up on Civil Rights violations. You can get life for that. They are through dealing. They got two chances :Slim and none.
“Regardless of what happens at the State level, the Feds are going to pick them up on Civil Rights violations.”
You say that like you trust the federal government to do the right thing.
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