ZIMMERMAN TRIAL - MORNING, Day 14, Friday, July 12, 2013 Let's combine comments into one thread.

[riverwalker]

70. bob kealing jury observation possible foreman (forewoman)

bob kealing ‏@bobkealing 16m
Other jurors appear more detached, listening, while juror E-6 has serious look. Going over notes.

bob kealing ‏@bobkealing 20m
6 has a clipboard and notepad, multiple pens and a highlighter. My candidate for jury foreman.

bob kealing ‏@bobkealing 22m
E-6 had two pens and a highlighter in one hand. I'm not surprised


did some searching on this possible jury forewoman.

Juror E6:
•She is white
•She is married and has two children.
•She has lived in Seminole County for two years.
•Her husband and son own guns.
•She was involved in a domestic violence incident in her past.

Juror E6

E6 was one of two jurors the State sought unsuccessfully to strike from the jury. She is a white mother with adolescent children, 11- and 13-years-old, and again was a jury first presented to the court on the second day of jury selection. She had lived in Seminole county since 1999.

She was among the jurors who had been previously arrested, but says that she was treated fairly, was deserving of it, and would not hold it against either side in this case. She explained that it had been a domestic violence matter.

She seemed quite nervous in her first day at court. She said she had seen “a headline here and there” about the case, but didn’t follow it closely. As so many other jurors, she discounted the credibility and trustworthiness of the press, saying that she takes the news “with a grain of salt,” “I don’t put much stock to what’s in the news, it’s so speculative.” She acknowledged the importance of basing the verdict only on evidence presented at trial.

She was aware that Zimmerman had been “a neighborhood watch person,” and said she thought that neighborhood watch could be either a good or bad thing, depending.

She recalled seeing pictures of Zimmerman’s bloody face, “just the one basic picture.” She also said that she had heard the recordings of both Zimmerman’s non-emergency call and the Witness #11 911 call. She said she didn’t have an opinion about who might have been screaming in the background of the 911 call.

She told the Court that her husband had several guns in the household, including a 9mm pistol and .38 caliber revolver, and a couple of rifles. Her 13-year-old son also has a hunting rifle and some BB guns. E6 has been to the range once shooting actual firearms, and has done target practice with the BB guns.
as involved in a domestic violence incident in her past.
In the context of the discussion of circumstantial evidence during the final voir dire by O’Mara, E6 said that the State “would have to produce first-hand witnesses and facts to overcome any reasonable doubt.” She professed to understand and to favor the higher of standard of proof required in a criminal case than in a civil case, because “the repercussions of a criminal case follow you for the rest of your life." E6 also asked a couple of interesting questions. She asked, “if all the evidence is presented and they’re trying to point it to one conclusion but as jurors we could imagine a scenario that also fit the facts with all the facts presented, would that be reasonable doubt?” She followed that up by asking to explore in further depth the concept of “a reasonable and prudent person.”

Notably, when she first heard about the shooting she used it as a cautionary tale for her children, warning them to not go out at night, and not to conduct themselves in dress or manner so as to give a “false impression.”


http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/06/meet-the-zimmerman-trial-jurors/