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In reply to the discussion: Juror B37 's Husband who is an Attorney Knows Mark O' Mara (Zimmerman's Defense Lawyer) [View all]MinM
(2,650 posts)91. Was there a mole on the Zimmerman jury?
...Adding to the concern over potential juror misconduct, Zimmerman neighbor and friend Frank Taaffe had appeared on both the FOX News Channel and HLN on Saturday a few hours before the verdict was read, and had claimed to possess inside knowledge that the jury was at that moment polling 5 to 1 in favor of acquitting the defendant, with one juror holding out for manslaughter. At 2:48 PM on HLN, Taaffe at first merely claimed he was very comfortable in this assessment and firmly believe[d] it was the case; prodded by host Nancy Grace to explain how he had arrived at his belief, he went even further, stating, I know its 5 to 1. Grace appeared to dismiss that allegation as ludicrous speculation, opining that Taaffe must have a Ouija board down [his] pants. ...
Perhaps Taaffe was just blowing hot air. Yet three days later, when CNNs Cooper aired the second part of his interview with B37, she confirmed that the penultimate jury poll had indeed been 5 to 1, with one juror holding out for manslaughter. In other words, Taaffes insight into their deliberations had been entirely correct.
Could it have been mere coincidence that Taaffe happened to put the vote at 5 to 1 at the exact moment this was accurate? Its possible. Its also possible that he did indeed have inside access to the deliberations. Was it via juror B37 and/or her husband, who, as weve established, were likely in contact with that national morning-TV producer by the time Taaffe made his brazen claim? Does the producer in question work for FOX or HLN? Or is s/he at CNN, where the juror chose to tell her story mere hours after her literary deal fell through?
And what if Taaffes source wasnt connected to B37 at all? That would mean that two out of six jurors, or a full third of the jury, had violated the rules of sequestration. While the nation focuses on B37s troubling comments to Cooper, and the pro-defense bias they arguably revealed, we should be looking deeper into the possibility that the verdict was compromised by simple and repeated misconduct all on the part of jurors who, either on their own or through proxies, couldnt wait to make contact with the media they purportedly deplore.
http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/index.php/2013/07/look-whos-talking-was-there-a-mole-on-the-zimmerman-jury/
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Juror B37 's Husband who is an Attorney Knows Mark O' Mara (Zimmerman's Defense Lawyer) [View all]
HipChick
Jul 2013
OP
If true, she should have been disqualified from serving on the jury...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2013
#2
Equally important, did the juror disclose that on her juror qualification form...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#15
When I've been through jury selection, everyone is dismissed who has any identifiable
MH1
Jul 2013
#17
i don't think degree is that important. there must be other potential jurors who aren't married
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#34
I don't think there is anything you can do about this now. Double Jeopardy. nt
LaydeeBug
Jul 2013
#8
In allowing conspiracy into the retrial, it allowed the jury to consider conspiracy in their...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#104
I don't know if I would use the word "forced" seeing as the State won the appeal...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#121
No, because how the prosecution used that evidence at trial would have to be measured against the
rug
Jul 2013
#133
A different question than appealing the inclusion of the conspiracy evidence in the trial....
Spazito
Jul 2013
#138
no, it's because there are nearly 500,000 people in seminole county & that the wife of an
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#70
funny that with a potential jury pool of over 200,000 people they couldn't get anyone but the
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#73
yes, there's so much similarity between the spouse of an attorney who knows the defending
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#75
sanford population 53K. everybody doesn't know everybody. i live in a smaller town, &
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#36
if her husband is a lawyer, regardless of how well he knows o'mara, she should have been
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#38
The jury wasn't selected from Sanford - it was from all of Seminole County - roughly 430k. n/t
whopis01
Jul 2013
#48
even more reason to wonder why a woman whose husband knew o'mara professionally got onto
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#68
He also stated on Fox he had an 'inside source' who told him about the 5 - 1 deadlock...
Spazito
Jul 2013
#52
Nope. Was just an observation. He has already said it wasn't his wife anyway. n/t
Lucinda
Jul 2013
#67
There was a post here earlier in the week suggesting that he recommended O'Mara
malaise
Jul 2013
#88