All white jury seated in O.J. Simpson trial


LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- A jury of nine women and three men -- none of them black -- was seated Thursday for the trial of O.J. Simpson on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.
Judge Jackie Glass decided prosecutors had a "race-neutral" reason for dismissing the potential juror.

The judge made no official mention of the jury's makeup, but prosecutors revealed in court that no blacks were on the jury. A black man and black woman, however, are among six alternate jurors.
Defense attorneys had argued the prosecutors were deliberately trying to exclude blacks, but Judge Jackie Glass denied their challenges.
Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Monday in the case against Simpson and a co-defendant, Clarence Stewart.
Prosecutors say Simpson and five other men stormed into a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13, 2007 to recover sports memorabilia that Simpson said belonged to him. Prosecutors say at least two men with Simpson had guns as they robbed a pair of sports memorabilia dealers.


If convicted on all counts, Simpson faces a possible sentence of life in prison. He has pleaded not guilty and has told CNN he was trying to get his property back.
Four of five Simpson's original co-defendants have struck deals with the prosecution to testify against Simpson. One testified in a pre-trial hearing that "O.J. Simpson wanted me to have a weapon." Another testified that Simpson "wanted me to help him acquire some guns."


An attorney for Simpson, Yale Galanter, has disputed that.
"O.J. Simpson did not know that there were guns in that room,"

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I have this bridge, you see... It's a nice bridge and reasonably priced, too.

He's in trouble now. They gotcha now, Juice.

yes, and I have this piece of land too
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lets just call it lake front property

The damn man is a fool! If i got away with killing two people. There would be no way in hell i would be breaking any laws. I damn sure would have written a book saying how i may have killed them. I have that book BTW..

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OJ is white too, so what's the big deal? This is news???


(actually OJ is orange)

Guilty.......

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Ignorance is our most expensive commodity ...

Hey Zippy.....let me ask you something..................


you think he might be guilty?

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He's still guilty. Always will be guilty.

Unless there's somebody else walking around with O.J.'s DNA...he's friggin' GUILTY.

DNA Shmee N.A. Did you see him stuggling with those gloves? He couldn't fake that - not unless he was an actor. hmph.

Possible, but we all know O.J. is the evil twin.

yup......gonna turn into a race issue very very soon andwhen they find him guilty and when he appeals the verdict he's gonna say,"Oh I didn't have any blacks on the jury ,I didn't get a fair trial"... etc etc etc. Last time I checked a jury is made up of your "peers" not your race. He got away with murder once lets hope that "justice" prevails and puts him where he belongs.

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This is what makes selecting a jury very important. While I understand your feelings on the matter, like it or not he was found innocent by our system. I personally did not agree with that decision, but it's something that we must live with. Is he guilty this time, it does appear that way but one will have to hear the case out. I for one would not sit on the jury, because it would be very hard for me to ignore my feelings on the first trial and not have that weigh on my decision.

I didn't agree with the verdict, either. But, "innocent" and "not guilty" are not always synonymous terms. Criminal juries do not find defendants innocent. They find them guilty or not guilty. Either the state proves its case beyond a reasonable doubt or it does not.

It works both ways, too. Innocent people have been found guilty and sentenced to prison or worse.

If you're actually innocent but convicted anyway, it sucks. If you actually did the deed but are found not guilty, life is a lark.

The system is imperfect. In a court of law, however, legal guilt is the only thing that counts. It has to be this way. Otherwise, none of us are ever more than a hunch away from a prison sentence or worse.

Regards,

Joe Walther

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