Posted on 06/21/2013 11:34:56 AM PDT by MNDude
Zimmermans jury is 100 percent women and 0 percent African-American.
This jury needed at least one African-American jury member, and one male. The selected panel can certainly be impartial, but because previous racially charged trials focused on the jury, the Zimmerman trial attorneys should have been aware of how the make-up could impact responses outside of the courtroom and, potentially, to the safety of the jurors.
The George Zimmerman prosecution and defense teams should have considered the potential for such a response in this case, because race was at issue from the outset.
This case should not be about race, but the attorneys failure to pick a more diverse group of six people is certain to reignite the issue, especially if the 100 percent all-female/non-African-American jury finds Mr. Zimmerman not guilty.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/06/21/zimmerman-jury-homogenous-dangerous/?test=latestnews#ixzz2WsSszZXG
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
see post 78
I wonder how gun sales and CCW applications are doing right now?
I have a suspicion that the reason the jury is white women is that the defense excluded blacks, and the prosecution excluded gun owners.
I would have thought that most ladies would wholeheartedly agree with me.
We used to have several hundred MEN do just that. It was called Congress over 50 years ago. And they did just fine; much better than we have now.
Let me ask you this. Would you trust an entire Congress made ENTIRELY of women? Would you?
I was referring particularly to appealing on grounds of the make up of the jury. Only the defense gets to appeal, if I’m not mistaken. If he is acquitted, the prosecution cannot appeal, right?
I beleive that is correct, otherwise I think it would be double jeopardy.
If Zimmerman is found not guilty, I am sure the FEDS will jump in and charge based on some convoluted civil rights BS.
My understanding is that action is not double jeopardy.
I thought two of the jurors are either gun owners or have husbands who are. One of which is also the wife of a cop.
Fox News has always been pro-Trayvon, pro-Black Racist.
Fox News is pretty much MSNBC for PhonyCon Liberals
Actually, any U.S. city with a significant black thug population is at risk. They are waiting for any excuse to riot
To a point, yes. But the cities that should be on RiotWatch DefCon Level 5 will be Miami (Trademarks hometown) and Orlando/Sanford.
Hopefully its not my place they burn down
after Rodney King trials i recall Clinton said he was offended by the decisions so they retried the cops with new charges and they were convicted. Is this right ?
Jurors:
e6 e40 b29 b76 b37 b51
Alternates:
e13, e54, e73, b72
The six jurors:
B-29 A black/Hispanic woman, as described by prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.
She moved to Florida from Chicago four months before the trial began. She has been
married for 10 years, and has eight children. Her oldest son is 20.
B-76 A white woman who has lived in Seminole County since 1995. She previously
owned a construction company with her husband. She has two children; her older son, 28, is
a foreclosure/divorce lawyer.
B-37 A white woman who has lived in Seminole County for 18 years. She is an animal
rescue volunteer who owns multiple pets, including three dogs, four cats, a ferret, a
couple lizards, a parrot and a crow with a broken wing. She is married to an attorney in
the space industry, with two daughters.
B-51 A white woman who has lived in Seminole County for the last nine years, and
a Central Forida resident since 1987. She is retired, and previously worked in real
estate. She is not married and has no children. She has previously served as a juror
twice, once three years ago, and once in 1991 in Orange County.
E-6 A white woman who has moved to Seminole County two years ago from Orange County,
where she had lived since 2004. She is unemployed, and volunteers at a school where her
children, ages 11 and 13, attend. Her husband is an engineer.
E-40 A white woman who moved to Florida from Iowa in November 2012. She works as
safety officer, and is married to a chemical engineer, with a 28-year-old son. She
previously served as a juror 20 years ago in a drug-dealing case in Pennsylvania.
From the following link and the Alternates listed there also:
http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/6/14/george_zimmerman_jur.html
That is a rich statement. It is only because of race there is a 'case' at all.
The defense should not side step or ignore the political pressure that caused the charges to come about even after the police and ADA initially said there wasn’t enough evidence. In his closing he needs to state exactly why George Zimmerman was brought up on charges, it’s a witch hunt. Jurors respect and need bluntness.
I thought they’re investigation concluded that civil rights of Martin were not violated?
Someone help us out on this one, didn’t Holder The Wicked already run his little show investigation?
Yes, they tried and convicted them on some sort of Civil Rights charge and they received a sentence of two years in Federal prison. I never did hear what happened to them after they got out of prison, or if they even survived prison.
If my memory serves me correctly, it wasn’t Clinton, but George H.W. Bush’s Justice Dept. that did the deed. Clinton didn’t take office until 1993, and they were retried in 1992.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!!!
That would make for a pretty dull riot.
Yes we will. And can you guess why?
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