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Sequestered Zimmerman trial jurors had alone time with family during trial [View all]
frontier00
Jul 2013
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and one of the Defense witness's was allowed to sit in the courtroom with them for the entire
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#4
what will need to be done is some investigation, probably some film maker/journalist
JI7
Jul 2013
#5
VanillaRhapsody, I watched most of the trial.. IIRC, re the Defense witness, friend of Zimmerman..
nenagh
Jul 2013
#112
There must have been some real bad politics between Serino and the prosecutors.
madaboutharry
Jul 2013
#12
It should be a mistrial, but can that overturn the verdict? Double jeopardy, etc.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#20
It's not on this thread, but there is a report that the jury was left alone in the courtroom with a
freshwest
Jul 2013
#69
If that is the case then why not simply ask the jurors to sign an agreement as to their phone calls,
Spazito
Jul 2013
#48
The jurors had anonimity, only family and, it seems, friends knew who they were...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#58
Actually if a reporter wanted to they could have found out there names which is
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#61
Oh I see your point I just dont agree that allowing them some private time was a breach.
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#66
It wasn't a legal breach, I have to assume the Judge authorized the unsupervised...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#72
Actually if you had bothered to research it (since its clear you didnt) I have stated
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#90
So you think because annulments are "rare" that it shouldn't happen in this case?
99th_Monkey
Jul 2013
#116