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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]rug
(82,333 posts)114. None of that is in the appellate decision.
No doubt the trial court had to carefully craft jury instructions so the jury would not conflate the two. But that's common in every criminal trial. When a prosecutor tries to bring in evidence of prior immoral acts the trial judge determines on a case-by-case basis whether the probative value of such evidence outweighs the prejudice to the defendant.
Do you know what happened to Taylor when the case was remanded to the trial court?
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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