Hey folks,
I just posted up the end-of-day wrap-up for day five of jury selection in the Zimmerman case,
available at Legal Insurrection here.
There were four notable events of the day, apart from the jury questioning.
Perhaps today’s most interesting news happened outside the court room. Juror E7, since identified by media sources as Jerry P. Counelis, who was dismissed from the jury pool on Wednesday for apparently misleading the court, was back at the court house today. We’ve done a separate write up just on Mr. Counelis, so if you’re interested in more just click the link in the header above. I did a separate post just on this interesting development,
which can be seen on Legal Insurrection here.Another unexpected bit of news today was the release by Robert Zimmerman, George’s father, of an e-book entitled as in the header above, covering the travails of his son through the current crises. I’ve downloaded a copy to my Kindle, and will comment as soon as I’ve had some time to “flip” through it. If you're interested, a copy
can be obtained at Amazon here, for $3.99.
The Judge also raised the issue of scheduling the as yet not completed Frye hearing from last week, to determine whether the State's speech "expert" witnesses would be permitted to testify at trial. Nothing was determined within hearing of the cameras, but the court room was left with the impression that the Frye hearing would be wrapped up next week.
Finally, she released a group of 23 prospective jurors who had “survived” to the next round of voir dire. They were told to return to court next Tuesday, and admonished to not discuss or research the case in the meantime, nor access any news about the case. Of the 23, 19 were women, 4 were men, and three of the group were black. Talk around the court house is that both sides want to bring 40 prospective jurors into the next round of voir dire, in anticipation of heavy attrition.
The remainder of the day the court moved through preliminary voir dire of another seven prospective jurors. For all the juicy details,
check out the full end-of-day wrap up post at Legal Insurrection.
Monday we do another full day of live stream, all-day coverage of day two of jury selection. Be sure to join us.
Best,
Andrew
@LawSelfDefense