Do you guys honestly think the Zimmerman jury has avoided ALL outside news/media?

[CatWoman]

I've never served on a jury, and I know some of you have.

I don't think it would be very hard to sneak a "peek", if you catch my drift.

[JimDandy]

1. They better have-our fair trial system and all.

ETA: when I was on a jury, there was a guard outside the door at all times and when we went for meals a guard accompanied us everywhere even sitting at the table next to us. We went everywhere in a group. There was a separate bathroom right by the jury room for use of jurors only. Phones calls were all supervised. A juror who wanted to cheat would have had to try hard to do so. And why would these jurors attempt it? They have front row seats to the hottest show in the nation and who would want to risk losing their say on that jury?

[BainsBane]

2. I think jurors do their best to follow instructions

especially in a murder case. They might have caught a bit of something by accident and then turned it off.

[Just Saying]

6. I agree with this.

I've never been sequestered but when I was on a jury I didn't look for information on the accused nor did I discuss with anyone before we were allowed. It wasn't a high profile case. I took the instructions very seriously and I think most of the other jurors did too.

[PoliticAverse]

3. They are sequestered...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/23/zimmerman-jurors-begin-life-in-sequestered-bubble-contact-with-outsiders-will/

[avebury]

4. I would think that the jurors are going to

want some time away from each other. There is something to say as too much togetherness.

[customerserviceguy]

10. If true

and the three weeks so far is not excessive as far as sequestered juries go, then that points in favor of a quick decision, no? If they really do want get out of there, then when a majority asserts itself, the minority goes along, unless they're determined to create a hung jury to avoid one result or the other.

[diabeticman]

5. I thought they where sequestered?

If they are then court officials are keeping EVERYTHING away from them.

My wife at a local hotel when the city had a major case and the jurors where being sequestered.

First off they had a hotel floor to themselves. Police posted at fire escapes AND elevator doors for that floor. All TVs taken out of the rooms. Anything watched by the group (and it was usually a movie) police where present. IF dinner was ordered in for them Hotel staff had to take it up to the floor and was immediately taken by the cops.

[CatWoman]

7. god

I would feel like a prisoner under those circumstances

[diabeticman]

8. My wife said they basically look like prisoners

[Caroline-Vivienne]

9. Yeah.

But I think they will acquit. The ME sunk the case. Game. Set. Match.

I can only hope this will inspire a review and change to the self-defense laws in Florida.

Very depressing. : (

[customerserviceguy]

11. Why would there be a change in the laws?

My guess is that the majority of Floridians is on GZ's side.

[Caroline-Vivienne]

13. Because GZ was in the wrong?

Because he SHOULD go to jail for targeting, tracking, confronting and killing an unarmed teenager?

Because his word and the eyewitness accounts of a murky, rainy, night-time confrontation shouldn't be enough to let him go scott free?

[Boom Sound 416]

12. not to be cynical

I don't think any of them want to get thrown off if they were caught

[Incitatus]

14. No

I think there is at least one stealh juror who has info that won't be allowed at trial.

[pintobean]

15. What makes you think that?

I've served on several juries, and I've never gotten any indication that any juror has done anything like that. I'm sure it happens, but I think it's very rare. It's one of the reasons there are alternate jurors. If a juror starts talking about the case, others will rat them out and they'll get booted.

[Incitatus]

16. Nothing inparticular

Just the coverage this has gotten before the trial and everyone I know has already had an opinion. I live in Seminole county and there's been a lot of talk about it. could be wrong. I know some jurors are from out of the area bit with a case like this a change of venue might have helped.