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Enough of These Jurors

The Scott Peterson trio of publicity jurors were on Greta Van Susteren's show tonight. They were just as inarticulate and slow tonight as they were at yesterdays' press conference. One lost her train of thought in the middle of a comment and couldn't finish her answer to a question. The other two couldn't answer a question at all, and responded they didn't know, they were "lost."

Why they'd find him guilty? He romanced another woman while his wife was missing and he showed no emotion. If how a defendant looks and emotes is being used as proof of guilt, perhaps it's time to shield defendants' faces from jurors.

Ok, fifteen minutes are over, let's get on with the appeal.

Update: A spokesman for Death Row at San Quentin was on. There are 500 + death row inmates living in one building with five tiers of cells, one man to a cell. Peterson, like the others, will live in a 41 square foot cell. He will eat his meals there and spend about 18 hours a day in inside it. It has a bed, toilet and sink. He can have a tv, radio and get magazines in newspapers.

It can get fairly noisy, but around 10 pm, the inmates have a policy that they all settle down and it gets quieter.

When Peterson first gets to San Quentin, he will spend 10 to 45 days in isolation, while they evaluate him. During this period, he will spend "considerably more" than 18 hours a day in his 41 square foot cell.

The other inmates know he is coming, and have talked about it. They have "disdain" for his crime, but they are much too involved with their own struggles "to avoid the executioner" to focus too much on it.

Update: The San Francisco Chronicle has more about conditions on death row at San Quentin.

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