Jury identities will be kept private in Zimmerman trial
Source: Associated Press
Jury identities will be kept private in Zimmerman trial
5:20 p.m. EDT June 5, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The identities of potential jurors in the trial of the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed teenager in central Florida will be kept confidential, a Florida judge ruled Wednesday.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson also ruled that potential jurors for George Zimmerman's trial won't be sequestered, as requested by defense attorneys.
During jury selection beginning next week, potential jurors will be referred to only by their jury numbers. Attorneys need to pick six jurors and four alternates.
"This is to be done in order to protect the prospective jurors from harassment and pressure from the public at large," Nelson said in the ruling.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/05/jury-zimmerman-identites-private/2394121/
Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
alp227
(32,068 posts)Why is the defense requesting NO sequester if the defense wants a fair trial, as negative details of the suspect keep piling up?
grok
(550 posts)Reporter's will know who they are by sight. and will be free to photograph and interview them then. I don't think that's that much protection actually
It's going to take a really ignorant juror not to realize the level of political pressure and a lynch mob mentality out there.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)grok
(550 posts)Not enough time in any case.
I could poison the pool a bit more myself with Trayvon's police/school report where he got suspended i guess with "expensive" jewelry and a "burglary tool" on hand. But so what?
newspaper foia result... pages 90-102
http://www.scribd.com/doc/145934678/Trayvon-Martin-MDSPD-Reports-Tagle-Attachment-pgs-90-102
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)To do otherwise leaves open the possibility (certainty in some cases) of juror intimidation.