Sheriffs Office admits it allowed UNSUPERVISED visits to the Zimmerman jurors

[bigdarryl]

The more I read about these jurors the more I'm conviced that there were some sort of jury tampering http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/20/new-accusations-against-zimmerman-jurors-as-sheriffs-office-admits-it-allowed-unsupervised-access/#ixzz2ZeWDWO7Q

[Gravitycollapse]

1. While unsupervised visits during jury sequestration are not uncommon...

A trial like this with such a huge possibility for misconduct or transfer of information to jurors simply must be considered in providing jury accommodation. What are the odds that Jury B37, the one who went on television to talk about how she thought Zimmerman was a good guy, was influenced by her husband who is a staunch gun rights advocate? Probably pretty high considering B37 wanted to coauthor a book with her husband on the trial.

These people needed to be truly cut off from the rest of the world. And that clearly didn't happen.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I thought once a jury had retired

it was contempt of court if anyone tried to discuss / influence their deliberations.

[Berlum]

4. If so, then Z-man & Co. will soon hear more shoes dropping

[dipsydoodle]

5. That's the case in the UK.

Almost anything seems to go in the US including chatter in the media etc on evidence produced during a trial.

btw - it would be the jurors who were in contempt of court : not who you may prefer it to be. It also wouldn't change the outcome of their verdict.

[malaise]

3. They have given the Feds a lot of teeth

This is getting better by the minute

[davidn3600]

6. It doesn't matter, the feds can't charge him with murder...period...

The government gets one shot at a conviction and that's it. It's practically impossible to overturn an acquittal...even if the jury had problems.

The only thing the federal government can do is charge him with violating civil rights under the hate crime laws. That's an even higher bar than murder.

[hack89]

8. How does prosecutor malfeasance impact Zimmerman?

The Feds cannot say "we didn't like how Florida handled the trial so we are going to try him."

And it certainly irrelevant to any civil rights charges.

[malaise]

9. So was the state of Florida involved in discrimination?

That is my question.

[hack89]

10. Not that I can see.

the fact that the state bypassed a grand jury to indict Z is evidence to me that the state was sincere in prosecuting him - they knew they had a weak case but still gave it a shot.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Something stinks.

[SouthernGirl2]

11. Juror B37, Mark O’Mara and Jury Tampering

When Sharlene Martin announced that Juror B37 and her husband intended to write a book of her experience on the jury in the George Zimmerman case, it caused me to revisit Juror B37’s voir dire. Sharlene Martin, now former literary agent for Juror B37, wrote that the jury in the George Zimmerman case decided he was not guilty “…due to the manner in which he was charged…” Immediately, I remembered that Juror B37 referred to rallies and peaceful protests as “riots.”

Listening to Juror B37 during voir dire reminded me of Robert Zimmerman Jr.’s anti-media diatribes, blaming rallies and Black activists for the arrest of George Zimmerman. Certainly, if Juror B37 believes that Zimmerman should not have been charged, and if she could convince the other five jurors of the same, then Zimmerman was never in jeopardy of being tried for murdering Trayvon Martin. She could serve on the jury with lodging, meals, and social events at the State’s expense, then write a book about it reaping a financial benefit.

http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/07/23/juror-b37-mark-omara-and-jury-tampering/