Pro-capital-punishment jury sought

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | May 26, 2002 | Alex Roth

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sign me up!!

[MizSterious]

Ping!

[BunnySlippers]

Anyone know if this trial will be televised?

[fnord]

we need to pick 12 FReepers to form our own jury ... could be interesting :-)

[Straight Vermonter]

I'm not an advocate of the death penalty but geez the jury has to be able to uphold the law.

[MizSterious]

At one point, Court TV said they would televise it, so keep an eye on their pages. Also, some of the San Diego tv channels will be carrying it on the web. Someone (maybe me) will surely post the url once we know for sure.

[Beach_Babe]

Thanks for the ping.

[BARLF]

Thanks for the flag.........Maybe if I called C-Span? ;))

[Jagdgewehr]

The defense, on the other hand, wants people who look at life in shades of gray, who are suspicious of authority, who are comfortable holding a minority opinion ? people who "have a different reference group," according to David Graeven of Trial Behavior Consulting Inc., a San Francisco firm that helps pick juries.

That is, suspicious of authority that abides in the precept that murder is wrong and apply the ardant position that the only just consequence is capital punishment.
Furthermore, these people must see things in "shades of gray" and be "comfortable holding a minority opinion." The interpretation here is, these people must not believe in absolutes, have the ability to deliberately dismiss facts, and be so deluded to think that their stupidity is actually virtue and therefore be considered a "minority opinion."

[Karson]

Thanks for the ping!

Any idea when they will start picking jurors? As I understand it, they are still in the interviewing phase...?

[Karson]

Uh ... I found the answer to my own question when I went back and read the article.

On Tuesday, a judge and lawyers in San Diego Superior Court are scheduled to begin interviewing prospective jurors in groups of 20.

[RnMomof7]

The defense, on the other hand, wants people who look at life in shades of gray, who are suspicious of authority, who are comfortable holding a minority opinion ? people who "have a different reference group," according to David Graeven of Trial Behavior Consulting Inc., a San Francisco firm that helps pick juries.

Interesting because I do not think in shades of grey..and I do not think the man is guilty (unless there is LOTS we have not heard yet!)

[Politicalmom]

You and me both, RNMom. I get tired of being called rigid. Having high moral standards and sticking to them...how "old".

[RnMomof7]

The only thing in the middle of the road is road kill..and that is true morally toooooooooooooooooo:>)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Jaded]

You and me both. Unless there is something significant that we have not heard. OTOH, I keep wondering WHY the intense spin? Does the prosecution really not have much more than what was at the PH?

The most that can be hoped for is the truth, that will be the only avenue to true justice.

[IncredibleHulk]

and I do not think the man is guilty (unless there is LOTS we have not heard yet!)

I think she was part of the evenings activities and they are all guilty. Westerfield is just the fall guy.

[RnMomof7]

I do not want to believe that..I really do not..

But sexual abuse would not surprise me seeing the parents hedonism and drug use

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

San Diego attorney Dan Williams, a former prosecutor who won a death sentence against convicted killer David Lucas, said he thinks juries in death cases hold prosecutors to a higher standard than they otherwise might. While they're willing to impose the death penalty if the facts call for it, these juries won't tolerate any sloppiness or ambiguity with the prosecution's case, Williams said.

The Biblical Standard.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother:

so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. (Deuteronomy 19: 15-20)

After 3,000 years...
The wisdom of the Old Republic still sounds true...