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[Enzom21]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/wa...nearly-all-white-jury-seated-trial-ex-n677116
Full story at the link.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A nearly all-white jury was seated Wednesday for the murder trial of a white former South Carolina officer whose fatal shooting of a black man stunned the nation after it was recorded on a cellphone by a bystander.

A jury of six white men, five white women and one black man will hear the case of Michael Slager, charged with murder in the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott as he fled a traffic stop in North Charleston.

In the Slager trial, the defense struck nine potential jurors, including seven minorities.

The prosecution challenged whether the defense was using only race as a basis for disqualifying them. The challenge was dropped after the defense provided detailed reasons for its strikes.

I don't really have any confidence that we will see a conviction here.

 

[DragonSworne]

Just save the tax payers money and let the man free. What a joke of a jury.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Expressing anti-gun sentiments is enough to get you stricken??

 

[Jmille99]

Well, guess we dont even need to wait and see how this story ends...

Spoiler

Please dont be a shitty jury

 

[marrec]

The defense provided detailed reasons for its strikes.

Of course it did.

Just like every defense (or prosecution) that strikes black jurors just for being black.

All of y'all should listen to this episode of More Perfect:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/object-anyway/

In which they discuss the Batson Challenge and how jury selection in the US is fucked.

 

[Ducarmel]

We ate a lot of crow for that all white jury that found a cop guilty of raping multiple black women and got sentenced to like 200 something years in jail on his birthday.

Hopefully this jury delivers justice.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Just save the tax payers money and let the man free. What a joke of a jury.

Seriously.

 

[commedieu]

We ate a lot of crow for that all white jury that found a cop guilty of raping multiple black women and got sentenced to like 200 something years in jail on his birthday.

Hopefully this jury delivers justice.

That was 1. There's been a zillion since to prove the rule.

 

[entremet]

It was murder in cold blood.

 

[Ri'Orius]

"That linebacker-sized man was charging directly away from me, obviously so he could get a running start when he came back for me. I feared for my life."

 

[FunkyMunkey]

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/45

south carolina is 28% black and they get one fucking black person on the jury. this is exactly why people have had enough of this shit

 

[Fergie]

Matter of time before he gets off of course. Despicable.

 

[The Faceless Master]

We ate a lot of crow for that all white jury that found a cop guilty of raping multiple black women and got sentenced to like 200 something years in jail on his birthday.

Hopefully this jury delivers justice.

and i'll eat crow again.

except this time i'll be hungry.

 

[The Kree]

He's gonna walk.

 

[YoungFa]

I dont know exactly how jury selection works. But the proscecutors look really amateurish, couldn't they just also have striked down all (or at least more of) the white jurors for some reason or the other, as long as it is not related to race. If the defence the lawyer could do it, why couldn't they?

 

[The Kree]

I dont know exactly how jury selection works. But the proscecutors look really amateurish, couldn't they just also have striked down all (or at least more of) the white jurors for some reason or the other, as long as it is not related to race. If the defence the lawyer could do it, why couldn't they?

Prosecutors don't give a shit about black people either.

 

[lightskintwin]

 

[marrec]

I dont know exactly how jury selection works. But the proscecutors look really amateurish, couldn't they just also have striked down all (or at least more of) the white jurors for some reason or the other, as long as it is not related to race. If the defence the lawyer could do it, why couldn't they?

It's a numbers game, statistically the jury pool will have less black people and the prosecution and defense only have some many jurors they can strike without challenge (not counting a Batson Challenge) so while the prosecution could strike a bunch of white jurors they couldn't strike all of them like the defense can (in this specific case).

Also, attorneys gotta save their strikes for jurors they think will be biased. In this case the defense has pretty good statistics showing that the more white people they can get on the jury the higher the chances their White defendant gets off.

 

[shadow_shogun]

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/804767074568597504?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

 

[smokeymicpot]

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/804767074568597504?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Really? Can't wait for the new president elect to say something now.

 

[Angelus Errare]

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/804767074568597504?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

oh.my.god

 

[RPGCrazied]

He will walk, the justice system lately has been a joke.

 

[Slayven]

I had to look up which one this waas

Come on,

 

[shadow_shogun]

Judge in SC police shooting trial tells deadlocked jury to keep deliberating

 

[Banana Aeon]

I would be shocked if it was the other way around.

 

[Kurtofan]

Expressing anti-gun sentiments is enough to get you stricken??

guns are people

 

[old]

I'm very comfortable in calling anyone a racist who does not see murder in that video. It's so clearly murder only a racist could twist it into something else. Clearly there are racists on the all white jury.

Perhaps it's time for new victim's rights laws regarding juries. Maybe victims of violent crimes and police shootings should have the right to have their race represented on the jury of their killer. And perhaps we should drop the unanimous requirement when there is clear video evidence.

 

[Slayven]

That one black dude must be hating life, unless he is a David Clarke type

 

[Squalor]

Judge in SC police shooting trial tells deadlocked jury to keep deliberating

Kind of shocked it's even at a deadlock.

Still, fuck those jurors for their "not guilty" stances.

guns are people

Guns, businesses, and flags: People.

 

[Jarmel]

Bet you it's the black man on the jury who is resisting.

 

[Beefy]

Saw this on the news in the UK. If he gets off the US is more fucked up then I thought.

 

[uncredited male]

So either it is over what he is guilty of or there is 1 or more holdouts who refuse to convict.

EDIT - Although if is the former than they should have a consensus on something.

 

[shadow_shogun]

Bet you it's the black man on the jury who is resisting.

With people like David Clarke in this world, I wouldn't be that confident in placing that bet.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Saw this on the news in the UK. If he gets off the US is more fucked up then I thought.

Prepare yourself.

 

[EPaul]

Hope the black juror stays strong

 

[Future PhaZe]

better a deadlock than for someone to roll over for not guilty just to go home

 

[Lord Error]

Oh man, I remember that. One of the most disgusting things I've seen in my life. Wasn't he also trying to set the dead guy up with a gun, and that too was caught on a video?

 

[uncredited male]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-shooting-slager-idUSKBN13R260

Judging by some online comments it looks like this was going to be the example folks could point to to prove their argument that the system is fair. So much for that.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

What in the fucking world?! Who on that jury thinks what that man did was justified?!......Jesus this country is something.

This should be an open and shut case...

Don't make me have to carry my black ass to North Charelston to protest this..

 

[shadow_shogun]

Note from the jury seemed to be poorly worded but suggested that there is ONE holdout on the jury.

 

[Enzom21]

Slager held back tears several times while on the stand Tuesday, including as he spoke of not being able to attend the birth of his first child — who he and his wife had struggled through two rounds of in vitro fertilization to conceive — because he was in jail awaiting trial.

Jail was torturous, he said. Slager was housed in a cellblock next to accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, who is charged in the deaths of nine black parishioners.

"I can't sleep. Nightmares. When I was in jail, the only thing they wanted to do was give me medicine," Slager testified. "I remember the doctor who was in charge of mental health came into my cell and said, 'I'll give you whatever medicine you want.' It was a roller coaster."

Note from the jury seemed to be poorly worded but suggested that there is ONE holdout on the jury.

Gee, I wonder who the one holdout is...

 

[Htown]

Jail was torturous, he said. Slager was housed in a cellblock next to accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, who is charged in the deaths of nine black parishioners.

Bet they had a lot to talk about.

 

[Future PhaZe]

Note from the jury seemed to be poorly worded but suggested that there is ONE holdout on the jury.

I have to believe the holdout is for not guilty

I just have to

No way you could have that many people saying not guilty in this circumstance

 

[Enzom21]

I have to believe the holdout is for not guilty

I just have to

No way you could have that many people saying not guilty in this circumstance

A jury of six white men, five white women and one black man

I mean there is a chance it is for not guilty... but come on.

 

[Squalor]

better a deadlock than for someone to roll over for not guilty just to go home

Deadlocked for now.

We will see.

 

[Beefy]

Prepare yourself.

Man, it's so messed up.

 

[Enzom21]

Prepare yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpuUwhx1Kg
Still relevant.

 

[Slayven]

It's going to end up hung and the DA refusing to retry or not guilty

 

[Aaronology]

I have to believe the holdout is for not guilty

I just have to

No way you could have that many people saying not guilty in this circumstance

No way? All-White juries have done much worse in the United States.

 

[WetWaffle]

Realistically speaking, what'll happen if the one juror refuses to back down, could he be forced? Would the case go on indefinitely or will it be dropped?