On Saturday, July 13, 2013 6:52:38 PM UTC-7, Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Names wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:08:30 -0700, George Plimpton

wrote:



On 7/13/2013 8:33 AM, Lickin' Ass and Fakin' Names wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:55:41 -0700, George Plimpton

wrote:



http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/n...,6822492.story



By Michael Muskal and Molly Hennessy-Fiske



July 13, 2013, 4:00 a.m.



SANFORD, Fla. -- Six women return to a Florida courtroom on

Saturday morning to begin their first full day deliberating the

future of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who is

charged with murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager.



The jury deliberated for about 3 1/2 hours on Friday before

breaking for the night. Jurors will return to the courtroom at 9

a.m. to resume their effort to reach a unanimous verdict.





This jury composition is interesting. The defense had to assume that

women would have an intense fear of the sort of crime Zimmerman claims

had been rampant in the neighborhood and would find Zimmerman's

suspicion of a 6'2" hoodie-wearing youth stranger to be reasonable. The

prosecution had to believe that the women would maternally gush over the

pictures of the 12-year-old Traycon and focus on the candy and soft

drink. One side badly miscalculated, but which?



I'll say this much - the prosecution's star witness, Rachel the Hutt,

didn't help them.





She was an excellent witness.



The consensus of experts as well as most lay observers is that she was a

horrible witness.



The experts in the times of Columbus

You don't know anything about experts or expertise. You have no expertise yourself.

Rachel the Hutt was a wretchedly bad witness - almost singlehandedly enabled Zimmerman's acquittal.