Mehserle Jury Selected; Grant Family Angry With Makeup - Jun 2010
LOS ANGELES -- A jury dominated by women and
without any African Americans was selected Tuesday to determine the fate of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, accused of killing an unarmed man on a Bay Area transit platform less than 18 months ago. The 12 jurors included eight women and four men. Of those, seven were white, four were Hispanic and one was East Indian. The alternates were composed of five women and one man. Three were Asian-Americans, two were white and the sixth was Hispanic.
?In this case, it is going to be a different of voir dire,
the district attorney is going to want defense-oriented jurors,? he said. ?They want more liberal jurors. In the sense that they are going to look at this and say ?Wait a minute, I know what the police do in certain situations. I know what they can do to people.??
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So, white rambo cop and his buddy pin down an unarmed black man and shoot him in the back in front of several witnesses and on video, and the District Attorney wants "
defense-oriented jurors" ???
Everyone ready to see Oakland burn to the ground?