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Juror B29 crying..

Steve

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while she is only one... it isn't a good sign for justice...

AP Reporter: Zimmerman Juror ‘Appeared To Be Wiping Away A Tear’ During Prosecution’s Rebuttal

The prosecution often appealed to emotion and asked the jurors to listen to their “heart” when deliberating. The prosecution’s tactic may have worked. One Associated Press reporter tweeted that he saw one juror “whipping away a tear” during the prosecution’s argument.

Associated Press reporter Kyle Hightower was present in the courtroom for the arguments. He observed one juror (B29) becoming visibly moved by the prosecution’s argument.

a married nursing assistant and mother, she's been married for 10 years. The woman — who is either black or Hispanic and is the only juror who isn't white, according to prosecutors — has eight kids
She reported that she had arrived from Chicago only four months ago, but had “no idea” about the case, and said “I don’t like watching the news, period,” and “I don’t read any newspapers, don’t watch the news.”

She did, however, recall that some “little boy passed away,” and “I’m assuming he was a kid, 12 or 13.” She recalled seeing pictures of Trayvon in various formats, including T-shirts. She reported hearing people talking about the event and taking sides about the “child who died.”

"Everybody needs a fair trial - everyone," she said. "I feel that at the end of the day, you have to listen to both sides. Every side has a truth."

"B-29" said that serving on a jury for several weeks wouldn't pose a hardship to her or her family, but that the possibility of being sequestered would be difficult.

"Emotionally, if we're talking about feelings, being away from your kids - it's hard," she said. "But something I would do physically and mentally for myself, I wouldn't mind doing it."

While no one can "shelve" all their emotions,.. cases should be tried and judged on facts.. not emotions...
 

Tam

Well-known member
Steve said:
while she is only one... it isn't a good sign for justice...

AP Reporter: Zimmerman Juror ‘Appeared To Be Wiping Away A Tear’ During Prosecution’s Rebuttal

The prosecution often appealed to emotion and asked the jurors to listen to their “heart” when deliberating. The prosecution’s tactic may have worked. One Associated Press reporter tweeted that he saw one juror “whipping away a tear” during the prosecution’s argument.

Associated Press reporter Kyle Hightower was present in the courtroom for the arguments. He observed one juror (B29) becoming visibly moved by the prosecution’s argument.

a married nursing assistant and mother, she's been married for 10 years. The woman — who is either black or Hispanic and is the only juror who isn't white, according to prosecutors — has eight kids
She reported that she had arrived from Chicago only four months ago, but had “no idea” about the case, and said “I don’t like watching the news, period,” and “I don’t read any newspapers, don’t watch the news.”

She did, however, recall that some “little boy passed away,” and “I’m assuming he was a kid, 12 or 13.” She recalled seeing pictures of Trayvon in various formats, including T-shirts. She reported hearing people talking about the event and taking sides about the “child who died.”

"Everybody needs a fair trial - everyone," she said. "I feel that at the end of the day, you have to listen to both sides. Every side has a truth."

"B-29" said that serving on a jury for several weeks wouldn't pose a hardship to her or her family, but that the possibility of being sequestered would be difficult.

"Emotionally, if we're talking about feelings, being away from your kids - it's hard," she said. "But something I would do physically and mentally for myself, I wouldn't mind doing it."

While no one can "shelve" all their emotions,.. cases should be tried and judged on facts.. not emotions...

The defense made a point of telling the jury to judge their client on the EVIDENCE presented by the Prosecution as they felt the Prosecution did not prove, without a shadow of a doubt, their case. WHICH THEY DIDN'T

But the Prosecution finished their final remarks by telling them to use their common sense and heart ie EMOTIONS to judge the evidence that might not have been presented as a CHILD died and the only possible way that could have happen was he was shot to death by the BIG BAD ADULT. :roll:

If the Prosecutor had done his job he would have told them to look at the EVIDENCE but since all the EVIDENCE pointed to self defense on the part of Zimmerman, the smaller of the two who was on the bottom in the fight, they didn't want the jury to concentrate to hard on their EVIDENCE. That shows how weak even they thought their case was. :roll:
 

iwannabeacowboy

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you have to love that it is an ALL one sex jury. Something is wrong there. I wouldn't want an all male or all female as our brains work differently.

With the mother instinct, and all the claims that the kid (which he is) is all innocent with lack of exposing his past, Zimmerman is probably in bigger trouble than I originally thought.

I figured that one person would have some common sense and a little doubt. But with the jury fixed the way it is in this day and age, it is a shell game anyway.
 

Steve

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Zimmerman is probably in bigger trouble than I originally thought.

after I saw the report on the crying juror,.. I realized that the most Zimmerman and his lawyers can hope for is a deadlocked or hung jury... that throws out the murder 2 charge..

I am not sure how Florida law works, but I think the defense can still go for a directed verdict at that point...

while it is just my opinion I think Prosecutors should be limited to facts in evidence and not an emotional appeal...
 
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