So it looks like the jury was drawn from freerepublic/the gungeon.

[DanTex]

So far, there's the one woman called TM a "boy of color" during voir dire and who hates the media but has already landed a book deal, and the other on CNN who said Z seemed like a nice guy, and that she was highly influenced by testimony that the judge explicitly told the jury to ignore.

It's starting to make sense. Maybe this is just a case of six idiots.

[Bjorn Against]

1. I knew about the one who talks of "the boy of color" and riots

Can you link to the CNN story? I have not heard of her and would be interested in learning more.

[DanTex]

3. It was on Anderson Cooper. I missed it too, just going by what others here posted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023267260
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023267448

[Bjorn Against]

6. Thanks, I guess we know at least two of the six jurors should not have been on a jury.

[DanTex]

8. Actually, I think they both might be the same person.

So, hey, maybe it's just one idiot, and the other five are Nobel laureates...

[quinnox]

2. yep, not a shocker

Apparently, one juror has really embarrassed herself tonight, and seems to have had a crush on Zimmy or something, saying he has a "good heart" and other nonsense.

[BainsBane]

14. Married to a lawyer

Did you catch that part? I wonder if high profile cases are just doomed because jurors are always going to be less intelligent and engaged than the average citizen. I found it ironic she questioned Rachel's intelligence. I'd wager Rachel has at least 20 IQ points on that juror.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

25. You have to be kidding!

Rachel is an idiot!

[Skittles]

53. she is smarter than that racist juror

[left on green only]

40. Are you talking about Rachel Maddow?

Whenever anyone on this board says the word Rachel all by itself, they are usually patting themselves on the back for thinking how cool they are for using that name in reference to Rachel Maddow, host of The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC.

By the way, I have a sneaking suspicion that Rachel Maddow's IQ is probably at least 20 points higher than 99% of the members of this board, including myself.

[BainsBane]

43. No, the witness. Rachel Maddow's is certainly far more than 20 points higher.

[Cha]

4. And, the prosecution didn't object to these jurors. I guess they

gave no clue when being asked questions. Or did the judge pick these women?

"zimmerman seemed like a nice guy".. give me a fooking break.

There was a jury of dumbshits.. just like z.

[Spazito]

10. Hey Cha! The State did challenge at least one of these women, possibly two...

for cause during voir dire. I'm a little hazy whether the State used a peremptory challenge and the defense levied a discrimination objection so the State then had to show cause, I think that is how it happened. The defense argued there was no justifiable cause and it was the State's attempt to discriminate against white jurors. The Judge did not accept the State's challenge and the woman/women remained as perspective jurors and at least one was subsequently empaneled.

[Cha]

22. Wow.. thanks Spazito.. it was a stacked

jury from the get-go.

[Spazito]

24. Yes, if the juror on Anderson Cooper is any example...

it certainly seems it could well have been. Her saying they didn't understand about Manslaughter so the only thing left was not guilty and using the phrase "those people" in reference to Rachel and Trayvon, well, all I can do is and then

[Cha]

27. I couldn't watch that shite even if I

had a tv. mahalo, for the reconnaissance, Spaz. Good gawd. Way to parade yourselves around, jury.. so, the world can get a real sense of why you didn't have the sense to put 2 and 2 together.

[Spazito]

29. For someone whose husband is an attorney...

he seems to have given her bad advice. She said it was Serino's testimony that Zimmerman was truthful that really hit home with her but the jury was admonished by the Judge to disregard it. She was in Zimmerman's court from day one but blurting out she disregarded the Judges admonishment on the show was beyond stupid but I'm glad she did. It says a lot about her and her agenda throughout the trial, imo.

[Cha]

32. Found this on Serino because I hadn't been following the trial..

Snip***

"Detective Serino a 15 year veteran on the force, interviewed George Zimmerman three days after the murder of Trayvon Martin and seemed less than convinced of the neighborhood watchman's story. He pointed out that it was hard to believe Zimmerman was beaten so viciously by Trayvon Martin, if he was able to go to work the next day and not even visit a hospital. He and another officer pointed out that Zimmerman was obviously following Martin, and that his failure of identify himself as Neighborhood Watch might've scared the kid.

Lastly and perhaps most importantly, he pushed back on Zimmerman's characterization of Martin as a "f***ing punk," chastising Zimmerman and pointing out that he'd shot an unarmed kid with candy and iced tea in his pocket. All of Serino's interview, which was put into evidence last week in the trial, is pretty damning and certainly looks like effective police work. That's when things get sticky.

Despite these obvious inconsistencies and questions mere days after the shooting, Det. Serino felt there wasn't enough evidence to arrest, let alone file charges against Zimmerman. This is where the problems start for most observers of this case. A police officer who shoots an unarmed person will automatically get a two week paid suspension while the department investigates--and they're trained law enforcement. Heck, Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots was arrested and the cops only had a broken cell phone, broken security camera and some Molly Maids as evidence--and he was a millionaire football player.

The point being, there are hundreds of thousands of cases with much less evidence on the table than the Zimmerman case where people get arrested, even if they are released later. Yet somehow Detective Serino didn't feel like filing charges against Zimmerman even though in his own testimony to the FBI he said Zimmerman had "a little hero complex," and that his story sounded "scripted."

http://www.chicagodefender.com/index.php/news/nation/20845-zimmerman-trial-update-detective-chris-serino-hero-or-villain-of-the-zimmerman-trial

This entire tragedy has been jerked around from the night zimmerman killed Trayvon to these jurors in the case showing their dumbasses on tv.

[Spazito]

33. Yep, if one didn't know it, listening to Serino's testimony one would think he was a...

defense witness given his testimony. The State had to call him as he was the investigating officer who first interviewed Zimmerman but his testimony was in favor of the defense and markedly so, imo. He came across to me as someone with a BIG chip on his shoulder about the Prosecution.

[Cha]

35. It doesn't make sense.. at all. Unless he

was paid by the defense to disregard his impressions of zimmerman.. and also he didn't arrest him until there was a backlash..

So, if z were found guilty it would make serino look bad, would it not?

If I have any of that wrong.. I'm sorry. I don't know as much as a lot of you peeps. The part about "being paid by the defense" is just riffing.. I'm sure that didn't happen no matter how that would explain it.

[Horse with no Name]

36. Two were empaneled. B76 was the other one

B76 - Strike by prosecution because she had asked why Martin was out late buying candy. The judge denied the strike.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/george-zimmerman-trial_n_3471341.html#988_going-throught-the-list-of-potential-jurors

[Spazito]

37. Thank you! I thought there was two but wasn't certain...

thanks for the link, much appreciated.

[olddots]

5. the Simi Valley jurors don't have anything on these slugs

This is about racism , ignorance and a system that only works for the connected ,it always has been but doesn't always have to be.

[npk]

7. The defense really lucked out with that group of six

Maybe one day someone will even make a movie about them "Six clueless Idiots."

[Sheldon Cooper]

9. Jury Results:

At Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:55 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

So it looks like the jury was drawn from freerepublic/the gungeon.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023267596

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

The "gungeon" is the nickname for the Gun Control and RKBA Group here on DU - this post is intended to provoke and antagonize a group of DUers by implying they are freepers, racists, and "idiots". I don't know why people get pleasure from posting flamebait and insulting OPs like this, but does it really benefit the DU community?

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:57 PM, and the Jury voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: What a stupid alert. Go stroke your gun.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

I was juror #6. Suck it gun humpers.

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahaha

[BainsBane]

15. Some love to play the victim.

A young man is dead, children keep dying from gun violence, and they continue to feel sorry for themselves.

[malaise]

16. They disgust me

Someone said earlier tonight that in their sick minds Trayvon was the guilty party.
Too sad.

[BainsBane]

18. For sure

I've had conversations with some that said as much. They are now worrying about Zimmerman rather than his next victim, or his last.

[Skittles]

20. that's a classic symptom of sociopaths

playing the victim card

[BanzaiBonnie]

59. Bingo!

That's what I've taught my family to watch for. Sociopaths leave ashes in their wake.

[DanTex]

17. LOL. But to be fair, the grammar in that alert was remarkably good for a gungeoneer...

[Cha]

23. I was just going to post.. good on

Juror #6 and you're it! Mahalo

[Hoyt]

28. Juror #6 deserves a medal.

[burnodo]

56. gunnies seem to have an awfully thin skin

is that why they need guns?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Jury nullification. Like I said.

[darkangel218]

30. What does jury nullification mean?

Abolishing the jury system?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

31. No. It means that you select jurors to serve who you think will give the result you want.

In other words, if you're the defense, you want a jury who you think may give you the outcome you want based on demographics (class, race, gender, etc.) and/or past experiences.

There were at least 2 jurors on this jury with demonstrated biases.

My biggest problem, however, is that the prosecution didn't seem to fight for a jury that represented the demographics of Sanford, Florida.

Population: 30% black, 20% Hispanic, 48% white.

I cannot believe or accept that the defense and State attorneys couldn't find one black, one male, or a more diverse jury.

[darkangel218]

34. Yah, i was surprised at the lack of diversity too.

Thanks for explaining what it meant.

X

[AZ Progressive]

48. Angela Corey is herself probably a racist. She puts far more black people in prison than...

...the state average. I posted on this earlier:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023268492

[BainsBane]

12. I was thinking of another site

lower on the evolutionary scale.

[Skittles]

19. it sounds like the fix was in

[octoberlib]

21. They're showing the interview again on CNN. NT

[Hoyt]

26. Sure as Shitte does.

[RoccoR5955]

38. There's a reason why I call it Floriduh. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. No, it's a case of a show trial. Common in the South for over a hundred years.

[animato]

44. Thank you

I want to research this and can use that term.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

47. Here ya go...

Skip to the Legal proceedings part of this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_Massacre


Also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-white_jury

[Hugabear]

41. Gungeon = DU freeper corner

They're one and the same. Pretty sure some of them have freeper accounts

[rl6214]

50. I registered there once to see what they were about

I was banned after one post.

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. Zimmerman supporters have been chirping since Saturday that the jury simply upheld the law

And that those who say otherwise are being "emotional."

Of course, as it turns out, the jury seems to have been packed with racist morons, and apart from their own bizarre emotional investments, they didn't even seem to execute the simple instructions given to them by the judge.

Of course, now that the Zimmerman supporters' first attempt to disguise their nonsense as "objective law" and "reasonableness" is collapsing like the house of cards it always was, we'll soon be hearing about how smart the defense was to pick such racist imbeciles for the jury, and how poor the prosecution was to allow it, ahem. Anything but admit the obvious: this event and trial has been the the throbbing symptom of systemic racism from top to bottom, with the Zim Supporters thick in the middle of that particular pustule.

[truedelphi]

49. I spent two weeks in Florida once.

Summer of 1978. My family was on a carriage at Disney World. A young kid came alongside the carriage, and my dad helped him get on. (Large horse lumbering along; easy enough for the child to walk along and get our support to have him join us.)

Next thing we know the carriage driver turns around, and as the kid is thanking my dad, the guy grabs the child by his collar and tosses him out on the ground. The kid was quite agile, and landed solidly on both feet. He didn't seem surprised at all about what happened to him.

My family sat there in shock. The driver turned to us and said, "Sorry for him bothering y'all."

We were struck dumb. It was a kid. A kid at Disney World. Okay, so it was a black kid, but it was 1978, not 1778. What The Fuck?

We got of the carriage long before our destination.

I realized years later we should have called and complained about this, but it was so far beyond the ken - so surreal. Not that Chicago was perfect, but people at amusement parks didn't toss kids around like they were bundles of hay or something. In fact, in Chi Town's ball parks, people of all races and different social classes interacted with each other, as though the World was one big happy family.

I have never been back to Florida. People say it has changed, but now this. I have been to thirty of the states in the USA, and six foreign nations, but I will never go back to Florida. Ever.

[hfojvt]

45. of course it would be

one of the key principles of the left seems to be - there are two kinds of people in the world, those who agree with me, and idiots.

[ReRe]

46. Y'all have heard of the "Stepford Wives"?

Well, these are the "Sanford Wives."

BTW, Piers Morgan is interviewing Rachel Jentel!

[Politicalboi]

51. OJ had 12, Zimmerman had 6

And both juries went on TV and showed us why such an atrocity was allowed to happen. They opened their mouths.

[rightsideout]

52. A jury of their Freepeers

[Scurrilous]

54. K & R

[Ruby the Liberal]

55. The one on AC360 is a moron

She based her decision on the "Expert Doctor" who was a Vietnam Vet.

This clueless wonder conflated the testimony of two different witnesses and ascribed "expert medical witness" to testimony that the judge explicitly told the jurors to disregard.

Way to showcase your stupidity, "Miss Florida"

[Ruby the Liberal]

57. Video of the juror on AC360

Stunning doesn't even describe it.

[Blue_Tires]

58. +1