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Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Jury Selection Day Three live, all day, along with a separate end-of-day wrap-up post. To catch up on the lastest events in State of Florida v. Zimmerman, click here to take a look at last night’s wrap-up post.
As usual we will be maintaining live-stream video coverage, just below, as well as rolling Twitter coverage from selected commentators, including me, at the bottom of this page. In between the video stream and Twitter feed I’ll post regular updates throughout the day to note any events of particular significance. At day’s end I will put up a separate wrap-up post discussing major events of the day, and their implications for the case moving forward. Thanks for joining us!
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Wednesday, June 12
Court is scheduled to begin at 9AM, although typically there are a few minutes of non-public court business before the live TV coverage begins in earnest.
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Comments
The quips certainly demonstrate the uphill battle that the defense faces. The potential jurors who admit a predisposition against the defense but who then say “Yes, I can put my preconceived notion aside and be completely fair, with both sides starting with a blank slate,” are especially dangerous. They are especially dangerous because many judges will not allow them to be excused for cause. When that is the situation the defense has to use up one of its limited peremptory challenges.
Do they do stuff like this at other courthouses in other states, or is it mostly a Florida thing?
Seems a bit heavy-handed, no, unless there are huge protests down there they’re trying to keep under control or something? I’m about 80 miles Northeast of there, and also don’t have TV, so I’m not sure what the situation is like down there.
Just FYI, for anyone who missed the day’s coverage (like me), the Orlando Sentinel has some clips up:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/
We expect to have our summary of the day up shortly, in a separate post. I’ll include a link to it at the top of this post, but it will also appear in the normal blog post sequence on Legal Insurrection’s home page.