The percentage of blacks in Florida is 16% +/-.
The percentage of Hispanics is 22.9% +/-.
Since Zimmerman is Hispanic would it be ‘fair’ if his lawyer tried to ‘stack’ the jury with a Hispanic?
The answer should be no and it also should be no to attempt the same thing because the ‘victim’ was black.
Racists gotta do what racists gotta do, right Joe?
As with the Rodney King cops, if the jury acquits Zimmerman, first there will be riots, followed immediately by a civil rights charge from the Holder justice department.
Lori Klausutis, tell us more about her Joe, that's what we want to hear.
Hey Joe — they deliberabely stacked the jury with white people so they would feel compelled to convict so they wouldn’t be called racists. It’s all about the strategery dummy. It’s a set up
The two who never gets it.
Justice is blind - but not guilty whites...
Mika’s approving gaze says all you need to know.
So Joe thinks that Zimmerman will be convicted? That’s the only way this gets appealed.
I’ve never worked around criminal law, but as I understand the appellate process at least for civil, only error by the judge allows an appeal to go forward, not the jury selection as agreed to by attorneys for both sides.
One would be curious, tho, as to why the prosecutors allowed a jury without a single African American. I would imagine finding an unbiased African American in Sanford, or one who would admit to thinking anything but that Zimmerman is guilty, is a fool’s errand.
Scarborough is pro-dictator. The reality is the prosecution tried to strike anyone familiar with the second amendment. There is no appeal rights for the prosecutor.
Scarborough must support “guilty untile proven guilty”
He’s wrong. The process of juror selection is very open, and while each side can object for cause a particular juror, they also have a limited number of juror rejections without cause. If one side notices an effort to exclude some group, as a group, it can object to the judge.
Sanford is located in Seminole county, which is 82.4% white, which includes 11% that are Hispanic or Latino. Only 9.5% are black. It was noted that one of the jurors is all or partially Latino.
The jury pool is derived from several sources, and is likely racially balanced. Potential jurors are randomly selected from the jury pool, and asked if there is anything about them that would preclude fairness.
One Martin supporter did try to sneak in and was caught, and the judge might have properly cited him for contempt, instead of just dismissing him, but did not. It didn’t matter because he later returned to the courthouse, made a fool of himself, and was arrested for it.
The bottom line is that racism resulting in grounds for appeal did not happen, as the process worked in a normal fashion.