[Gay State Conservative]

Unless Zimmerman’s defense is incompetent (or working withe the prosecution!), it SHOULD be difficult to impanel a completely hostile jury.

I don't know how many challenges each side gets (I'm not a lawyer) but I know that each side gets at least one...and probably a good deal more.What you say about empaneling a completely hostile jury applies both ways.That is,IMO,barring huge stupidity by *either* side during jury selection the final result will be "hung jury".To be more specific,if there's a single black woman on the jury (and what are the chances of that not being the case?) Zimmerman's only hope is a hung jury because you and I know that such a juror will never vote to acquit....if,for no other reason,than to avoid harm to herself or her family.

[Little Ray]

I’m not a lawyer either, but the info is out there.
I think it is 10 for defense and 6 for the prosecution in a non-capital case.

I don’t know how Florida will react to a hung jury, but we can hope they will chose not to re-try the case. I am more worried about Holder’s “Just Us” Department picking the case on some trumped up “civil rights” prosecution. But with a little luck, Holder and co. will be gone before a verdict on Zimmerman is returned.