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Skinner

(63,645 posts)
1. I don't want to appear to be defending Zimmerman, but...
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:33 AM
Jul 2013

...in the United States you don't need evidence to free someone. You need evidence to convict someone.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
4. It is going to be a race to see
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:39 AM
Jul 2013

Whose book can get published first.

I bet they all had agents and publishers doing their best to find out who they are.

Should jurors be allowed to profit from jury duty? Could that prospect influence their decision making process- say they know that a decision will be looked on more favorably by a group with more money to buy a book?

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
6. Whose book can get published first. " and damn the people who help others profit off this tragedy
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 11:09 AM
Jul 2013

dont but the book

Kali

(55,012 posts)
9. have you ever sat on a jury?
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 07:22 PM
Jul 2013

How many books by jurors in big cases can you list?

disgusting comment.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
11. There are books by jurors from
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 08:02 PM
Jul 2013

The OJ Simpson trial, the Scott Peterson trial, and at least one juror from the Casey anthony trial has signed a deal for a book.

I have been called for jury duty twice, once when I was still a deputy once after, but defense attorneys hate a cop or ex cop on a jury so I always get dismissed.

Kali

(55,012 posts)
13. I did not know that.
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 08:08 PM
Jul 2013

still, that is a pretty small sample - 2 and one deal? doesn't seem to be a trend, really. I think most people take being on a jury pretty seriously and are not in it for fame or fortune.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
15. Most do
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 09:09 PM
Jul 2013

But if you are offered a million or so for a book, it would be hard to turn down.

And you know every publisher is doing their best to track down the jurors and be first, they likely even have ghost writers lined up.

Go in, interview, have ghost writer work, let juror tweak, edit and off to the presses.

Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts)
5. I heard this morning that when the jury entered the courtroom,
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 11:06 AM
Jul 2013

they did not look at GZ. When they delivered the verdict when they were polled, when they left the courtroom they did not look at GZ.

I wouldn't be surprised, if they speak, to find out that within the guidelines given to the jury, the prosecution failed to prove their case.

I don't know how they came to this verdict, but it's scared the hell out of me. If an armed person can stalk and confront an unarmed person and then, when the unarmed person tried to defend himself, shoot and kill that person without repercussions, we should all be scared.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
10. You nailed it. At what time does a person that is being followed by someone other
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 07:31 PM
Jul 2013

than a cop has a right to self defense? As the Florida law now stands, a person can lure a second person into defending himself or herself, then kill the second person and claim that the killing was justified due to fear for life.

ksoze

(2,068 posts)
14. With all the hate, I would think they will hide out
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 08:22 PM
Jul 2013

The hate towards them and anything that was not anti-Zimmy will effect them too. I suspect they will either show up on TV with their names and faces hidden or submit written stories. This case became a media shit storm and anyone in the corss hairs will probably face harassment, no matter the side.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
17. Don't be so sure, ones already got a book deal in the works.
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 01:51 PM
Jul 2013

I would feel like a lowlife maggot making money off of this tragedy, but that's just me.

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