Posted on 06/14/2013 5:51:18 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Today, June 14th is DAY #5 of the scheduled State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case.
Continuing jury selection. Yesterday the Court continued its preliminary questioning of prospective jurors, moving through 10 candidates by the end of the day.
The biggest event of the day, however, occurred shortly after the lunch recess when Judge Nelsons announced from the bench that she would be ordering the sequestration of the jury for the duration of the trial,.
She based this decision on the fact that both parties agreed the trial was likely to take two to four weeks, as opposed to the four to six weeks that many had anticipated.
It appeared that she had been inclined to sequester the jury if the sequestration period was not to be too long. With the agreement on the likely shorter duration of the trial, the balance swung in favor of sequestration.
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Prolly dun for the day
H-6 will be back Tues so he made the cut.
Courtroom has an open mic as I speak.
Then speak a little softer
MOM is talking now.
I was listening to the jury selection while doing my bookkeeping. I did not close the site immediately after the court ended for the day. Wanted to review tweets. Well, soon I found out the mic was open. Someone from the media will leak what is said.
May have been a bit more to it. MOM saying reports that he was trying to get to the jurors. Coulda' been instant mistrial if he'd succeeded.
List of 29 potential jurors thus far:
http://s901.photobucket.com/user/Uther2/media/Working%20Uploads%203/ZimJun14-3_zps99bbc5c1.jpg.html
Here is E81 who didn’t make the list and the reason why:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kLKAKJ1qbXg#!
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