I mean, seeking out fame and / or notoriety can cut two ways, in that it can both open doors for you and also slam them tightly shut on you. And given this development and speaking for myself only, I'd offer that this woman is hardly someone I'd ever want to hire or contract for any job requiring an ability to keep things in confidence.

Basically, unless all the remaining potential jurors were members of the KKK or the NRA, letting this person on the jury was a terrible, horrible, very bad decision. Whoever decided not to ding this woman should never be allowed back in a courtroom.  Not ever.  

This juror was not guilty from the beginning.   She seems to be one of those jurors who steers the decision making.  Unfortunately for the Prosecution, she was all Zimmerman from the beginning. Keep her off the jury and it could have been a different result.

the dark underbelly of the criminal justice system vis a vis juries

He, like Jeralyn, has said all along that blacks aren't treated equally in the justice system period, including by prosecutors like Ms. Corey.

That's the way with laws, it seems.

B-37 gets news from NBC. She watches the TODAY show.

She doesn't pay attention to people giving opinions without facts.

The test for self defense is not reasonable fear. It's a reasonable belief one is in imminent danger of the imminent use of use of physical force.

There was not a shred of evidence Zimmerman exhibited any intent to use physical force on Martin before Martin attacked him. He was not entitled to punch Zimmerman and hit his head against concrete.

I'm not sure why you think I would be offended - I was correcting Yman's assertions that the correct term for black people is "African American" and I pointed out that that is a false statement - not all black people are African American (and there are some white people who are technically, "African American").

I did not say the "correct term to apply to black people was African-American.  My post was in response specifically to this comment:

what term should be used to describe What people who are not descendants of people captured in Africa and brought over here as slaves can or are supposed to call those who are is a constantly shifting target

So congratulations on "correcting" something I never claimed.

Another swing, ... another miss.

She felt sorry for Rachel-didn't want to be there, was embarrassed by her lack of education, was most imortant for timing of calls.

Her tone of voice when talking to Bernie was clipped--her voice was much softer when she was talking to O'Mara.  Zimmerman smiled at her more than I have ever seen him smile.

Perhaps also the lack of any shred of evidence regarding Zimmerman's intentions had something to do with the fact that Trayvon is dead? Just a thought.

Okay, let me attempt that conversation, Mr. Robinson. Here's my response to what you just said. I think our society demonstrated great care toward Trayvon Martin, even to the point of putting Zimmerman through a trial that should not have happened. That is, it was an excess of care for Martin, a bending-over-backwards to show that we care about Martin and all the young men he was seen to represent. And now, after an extensive, careful trial, and a jury verdict that clearly hewed to well-honed instructions about evidence and burden of proof, you still want to use it to assert that we don't care. If that's the kind of conversation we get when we try to respond to the invitation to have a conversation, can you see why it's something we avoid?

Now, just there, I did not avoid. I tried to be game about conversation, and I said what I truly think, which is probably what other conversation-about-race avoiders think. If you really mean "conversation," then let's continue, with a fair response to that. If what you really mean by "conversation" is let me lecture you until you humbly accede then could you please stop calling it a conversation?