Trial Watch (live feed) 9/22/08

[KittyMom]

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/nichols/default.aspx

[KittyMom]

http://www.jurorthirteen.com/

[KittyMom]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/09/21/brian_nichols_trial.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_news tab

Juror #17 wrote the court that he had strong feelings about Nichols and asked to be excused for “emotional,” “mental” and “dental” reasons.

The tooth excuse was not explained.

But none of the excuses impressed Superior Court James Bodiford.

The judge admonished the 30-something man about shirking his civic duty — and quickly let him know why he would still feel the pain of jury duty but would do so solo.

“It is sort of like being out in the battlefield and deserting — you leave everybody else to do the work,” Bodiford told the juror who tried to escape duty on the cusp of trial. “You are a shadow juror. You still have the same rules…. You have to wear your juror badge every day.”

The no-nonsense judge put the juror in the judicial equivalent of high-school detention.

He required the juror to attend the Nichols trial — which is expected to last until Christmas — and sit in the audience but he won’t be able to participate in deciding Nichols’ fate.

“There is no such thing as quitting the case,” Bodiford told the jury shortly after swearing them in at 10:51 a.m. in explaining why one of its number wasn’t in the box. “He will be fed lunch just like you will but he is not going to be in the same room.”

The judge also cleared the courtroom audience of everyone except families of the victims, District Attorney Paul Howard, Nichols’ family, assorted members of the defense and prosecution teams, a pool television cameraman and a pool newspaper photographer.

In a video, the judge read the 54-count indictment to the jury.

[kindee]

hello peeps, thanks for the head's up KittyMom. Anyone watching this a.m.?

[London Lass]

hello peeps, thanks for the head's up KittyMom. Anyone watching this a.m.?

I'm trying to, but it's not a particularly successful feed! :lex_10:

[kindee]

I'm trying to, but it's not a particularly successful feed! :lex_10:




NO it's HORRIBLE, wahhhhhh! It's supposed to last for months; they'd better get the feed fixed by then!

[lost indie]

Anyone else watching this with me????

:smiley_aasg:

:happy0207:

:0012:

[KittyMom]

Jury has verdict live

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123304&catid=8


GUILTY on all charges.

[KittyMom]

54 counts less than 12 hours of deliberations.