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Originally Posted by Monkei
I think she is merely a person who has been hounded by the press and finally made her statement. Maybe it's not agreeable with you but she made it.
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I hope that jurors are not hounded by the press. This kind of information protects the integrity of the jury system. I mean the names of the jurors on various cases. You would think that these names would be protected for a certain amount of time especially in hot button cases.
I remember as a student lawyer at the U of MN Law School at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners I was trying to change the name of someone who had committed a particularly heinous crime in Minnesota and I got a lot of ill will from the judge as well as her staff while trying to put through this name change for him. (I cannot reveal the name because of client privileges and the like) The victim as far as I knew would be kept informed anyway about my client who still had quite a number of years at Stillwater Prison. This was a hot button case in Minnesota (@ 1988) and the judge's staff still had ill will towards the convict which is to be expected.
My point is that there should be some privacy for those who are pulled into situations like this. Jurors are just doing their duty. The woman in question looks like she was going for her 15 minutes of fame. She also to me sounds very reasonable given her background. There was reasonable doubt as defined by the jury instructions as to manslaughter and homicide; but she thought that George Zimmerman was guilty of deliberately killing Trayvon Martin.