Posted on 07/16/2013 8:02:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Defense attorneys knew a jury of five white women and one Hispanic woman would find it difficult to identify with the humanity of a Black teenage boy.
When I was a kid in Florida, I remember the old folks used to play Bingo. As far as I could tell, it was purely a game of luck. If they called your number, you simply moved your chip onto the appropriate space on the board.
But what if a player controlled the boards that were distributed or the numbers that were called. That would obviously raise a ruckus, of course, unless it was done in a way that made it seem fair.
That's the sinking feeling I got Monday night when I watched the televised CNN interview with Juror B37, the first juror from the George Zimmerman trial to go public. Watching the inconsistencies in her logic made me remember those Bingo games and how seemingly neutral systems could be constructed in a way to guarantee a particular outcome.
One day when I was young, I discovered my grandmother had rigged a church Bingo game so that her best friend's granddaughter could win a bicycle. Young and naive, I challenged her. "Oh, the white folks do it all the time," she blithely responded. I didn't believe her back then. Then I saw Juror B37.
By her own words Monday night, Juror B37 made the case to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter. After listening to all the evidence, half of the jury initially felt Zimmerman was guilty but the other jurors persuaded them to change their minds. Although B37 was one of the initial not guilty votes herself, her own statements to Anderson Cooper actually make the case for manslaughter.
"George Zimmerman is guilty of not using good judgment," she told Cooper....
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MSNBC is saying the same thing.
Yeah, I heard Al NotsoSharp complain that it wasn't a jury of Trayvon's peers. So is he really that stupid, or is he really that evil and everybody he influences that stupid?
How about the NAAWP, Congressional White Caucus, and the United Caucasion College Fund? I may send even my kids to one of the White Colleges.
Obama will be all over that.
As if that railroad crew of the persecution, er, ah, prosecution and that shrew of a judge didn’t have anything to say about who was on the jury. Or are they part of the vast whitey conspiracy, too, Keith?
What I want to know is if Zimmerman is going to sue Martins guardians for the gay bias attack he suffered at the hands of their minor son. Oh no? Well the news was out today that Trayvons girlfriend said Trayvon thought Zimmerman was a homosexual and that is why Zimmerman was following him. If so, then his attack on Zimmerman was a gay bias attack which Democrats are fanatically against. Did Zimmerman not suffer wounds to his body because of this gay bias attack?
Jacksonville fla over a drug rip off.
...half of the jury initially felt Zimmerman was guilty but the other jurors persuaded them to change their minds.
The author misses a couple of important points. First, serving on a jury and deciding guilt or innocence is not an exercise that lends itself to "feelings"; rather it is an intellectual exercise that requires the use of logic.
Secondly, the author misunderstands that fortunately half of the jurors were able to persuade the other half to disregard their feelings - much of which no doubt was based on BS news media reports and the views of national race pimps - and to use their minds.
"George Zimmerman is guilty of not using good judgment," she told Cooper...
The author has no clue what "manslaughter" means.
I thought that turned out to be bogus ?
Ain’t that a hate crime? Where is GLAD, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, Queer Nation and the ACLU?
Is B37 the juror who moved to Florida from Chicago ?
Why is she not in fear like all the other jurors? Is it because she has some ‘federal’ protection ?
It appears to me the idea now is to discredit the jurors, and that this woman was a plant all along. She couldn’t sway the other jurors to her side (she admitted she voted ‘guilty’ the first time, correct?) so they had to resort to PLAN B: Make it appear that the jurors were all idiots so that the DOJ can get the public’s backing for federal charges.
Her husband is an attorney, IIRC. Maybe he has some juice.
Incorrect.
She thought GZ was innocent from the start.
Can someone remind this idiot that the prosecution CHOSE this jury..they wanted an all women jury to look at those pictures of Trayvon and go “Awwwwwwwwwwwww poor baby” and convict Zimmerman..didnt work out that way did it..the jury saw through that BS and rendered a just verdict
"Keith Boykin: on the down low"
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Jesse Jackson wins the award for Loud-Mouthed Reverse-Brain Idiocy in this affair. He complained about the all-white jury saying that "Trayvon did not get a jury of his peers," pushing the idea that a "peer" is a person of one's own race.
But Trayvon was not the accused. It was George "the White" who was on trial. And according to Jackson's own formula, George DID have a right to an all white jury.
And of course, earlier in time, Jackson publicly admitted that he practices racial profiling against blacks.
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