Former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) Files Appeal, Citing Scripture

Lol, kind of hard to fault the prosecutors for dismissing that potential juror.

 

I agree.

 

I disagree. Sounds to me like the juror had her mind made up before deliberations ever bagan and it had nothing to do with the evidence.

 

Why?

 

Well, I was corrected, this juror was aready picked before their "revelation," but...

If a potential juror said that they had received divine revelation as to the guilt or imnocence of a defendant, well, it sounds to me like their mind is made up.

Hard to get a fair trial if one of your jurors already has the answer before the trial.

Now, if you were falsely accused of a crime, would you want a person who believed that God told them you were guilty on your jury?

 

I got you...that makes sense. I thought you were saying a already selected one should be kicked.

 

I don't know if it's legal, but they should be.

Again, if you were on trial, would you want to be judged by someone who told the judge that they were disregarding all evidence and convicting you based on divine revelation?

I wholeheartedly believe in God. In regards to statements about how a juror says that God told them how to vote, pardon me if I have some skepticism.

 

Well if you want to go down that road, it would be hard to fault prosecutors for dismissing black jurors because the defendant was black. A DA many years ago that I tried many cases with always did that. He denied that reasoning, but if the defendant was black, he was going to use every strike he had on black jurors. Its smart if you are just looking at winning and losing, but it is dirty and unethical.

 

The judge has the legal duty to dismiss any juror who has predetermined guilt.