Where will the jury come from?

[Omachka]

I know that the city of Jacksonville has the largest population in Florida

Principal Cities

2010-04-01
1 Jacksonville 821,784
2 Miami 399,457
3 Tampa 335,709
4 St. Petersburg 244,769
5 Orlando 238,300
6 Hialeah 224,669
7 Tallahassee 181,376
8 Fort Lauderdale 165,521
9 Port St. Lucie 164,603
10 Pembroke Pines 154,750
11 Cape Coral 154,305


Is Judge Perry looking at a single City or a County? I thought he was looking at a County..

I'm thinking County because that's how the courthouses are set up. HHJP's comment today about the area having access to fewer media outlets makes me think the panhandle is an option. Many of those folks get their local TV from other states than Florida so they wouldn't have been inundated as much with this case. It's all just guessing though.

 

[Intermezzo]

I'm thinking County because that's how the courthouses are set up. HHJP's comment today about the area having access to fewer media outlets makes me think the panhandle is an option. Many of those folks get their local TV from other states than Florida so they wouldn't have been inundated as much with this case. It's all just guessing though.

I thought county as well and somewhere in north Florida..

Does JBP need to find a county with the same demographics as Orange County?

 

[nachomama]

I think they should come over to Circus oops I mean Citrus County.. I'd LOVE to have a shot at being on that Jury...

 

[sleutherontheside]

I thought county as well and somewhere in north Florida..

Does JBP need to find a county with the same demographics as Orange County?

It can be bigger or smaller. But similar specific demographics. I was interested in the "not many news stations" comment.

Many No. Fl. counties have newscasts out of AL and GA.

 

[ExpectingUnicorns]

It can be bigger or smaller. But similar specific demographics. I was interested in the "not many news stations" comment.

Many No. Fl. counties have newscasts out of AL and GA.

Panhandle here; we only receive from 2 stations in Panama City and one from Pensacola. The others are all out of state ~ Mobile, Dothan AL, etc, etc. But some posters were speculating that HHJP only floated the comment about the news stations to confuse the curious. I dunno.

 

[Wagara]

About jury selection...my brother was accused of murder in '85.

To this day, our local newspaper always prints the selected jury pool in the paper for at least a month before court begins. As per his defense attorney, my entire family had to study the list of potential jurors and note anything we (or anyone we knew) knew about them. If we didn't know them, we had to ask around and try to figure out who these people were. According to his procedure, it wasn't about race or sex as much as it was about their family history and if they had had someone in legal trouble before or had been in trouble themselves. My Mom (who paid for the defense), my brother, and his attorney each voted as the jurors were drawn and interviewed. Two votes was a yes.

I am from a county of 40,000 so this was doable for us. Do you think the DT/SA will have time to investigate the jury pool?

 

[eileenhawkeye]

If you want an idea of how media coverage varies throughout Florida, my school has a newspaper archive database and it tells you how many articles each newspaper has written about a certain subject. Here's the data for Caylee's case:

Orlando Sentinel: 517 articles (Orange County)
Tampa Bay Examiner: 79 articles (Hillsborough County)
Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel: 75 articles (Broward County)
Bradenton Herald: 66 articles (Manatee County)
Ocala Star Banner: 35 articles (Marion County)
Gainesville Sun: 35 articles (Alachua County)
Miami Herald: 25 articles (Miami-Dade County)
St. Augustine Record: 22 articles (St. Johns County)
St. Petersburg Times: 17 articles (Pinellas County)

This is just newspaper coverage, not local TV coverage, but I would think the proportions would be about the same, as in Orlando having the most, etc.

 

[noonie]

I hope the jury comes from where Caylee is now, in HEAVEN !!!!XXOOXXOO

 

[ZsaZsa]

What's the betting they will ask the potential Jurors if they are members of WS?

 

[daisy7]

If you want an idea of how media coverage varies throughout Florida, my school has a newspaper archive database and it tells you how many articles each newspaper has written about a certain subject. Here's the data for Caylee's case:

Orlando Sentinel: 517 articles (Orange County)
Tampa Bay Examiner: 79 articles (Hillsborough County)
Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel: 75 articles (Broward County)
Bradenton Herald: 66 articles (Manatee County)
Ocala Star Banner: 35 articles (Marion County)
Gainesville Sun: 35 articles (Alachua County)
Miami Herald: 25 articles (Miami-Dade County)
St. Augustine Record: 22 articles (St. Johns County)
St. Petersburg Times: 17 articles (Pinellas County)

This is just newspaper coverage, not local TV coverage, but I would think the proportions would be about the same, as in Orlando having the most, etc.

Interesting that it doesn't list any articles from the Pensacola New Journal, and there have been a few, but not a lot. I'm a local in P'Cola and we have 3 "local" tv stations, though only one is actually based in Pensacola. The other 2 are based in Mobile, AL.

 

[eileenhawkeye]

Interesting that it doesn't list any articles from the Pensacola New Journal, and there have been a few, but not a lot. I'm a local in P'Cola and we have 3 "local" tv stations, though only one is actually based in Pensacola. The other 2 are based in Mobile, AL.

It says that the Mobile Press-Register has written 30 articles about the case, but I didn't include it in my list because the jury would have to come from Florida. I checked the list of sources and Pensacola News Journal isn't one of them, for whatever reason. It searches 2200 U.S. newspapers, so it's surprising that they don't have the Pensacola News Journal, but I'm guessing that they might not archive their articles.

 

[LolaMoon08]

I can't give an exact number on articles written in the "Newspress" (Lee County) but I know there have been a few in our local section under State news. One was just the other day.

I do have a question though. Are hotels (places where the State, the Defense and Judge Perry will be staying) have some kind of confidential agreement? I would hate for a hotel employee to leak the information before the jury selection!

 

[gramcracker]

I hope that many potential jurors are watching Dateline tonight, to see how families of the truly missing act/react:

- - > during searches largely conducted by her family for OVER ONE YEAR, Amber Bubois' mother drove across the border from Escondido to Tijuana (4 times) because of a tip that her daughter might be there.

- - > Chelsea King's mother on TV numerous times pleading thru tears for the return of her daughter, pleading to the person who took her

 

[daisy7]

It says that the Mobile Press-Register has written 30 articles about the case, but I didn't include it in my list because the jury would have to come from Florida. I checked the list of sources and Pensacola News Journal isn't one of them, for whatever reason. It searches 2200 U.S. newspapers, so it's surprising that they don't have the Pensacola News Journal, but I'm guessing that they might not archive their articles.

PNJ has never had a good website, IMO. And, they recently switched to something new, most of which doesn't work using Firefox. The new site is downright annoying!!

ETA: P'Cola is in the same media market as Mobile. We're often referred to as LA -- lower Alabama

 

[ExpectingUnicorns]

Interesting that it doesn't list any articles from the Pensacola New Journal, and there have been a few, but not a lot. I'm a local in P'Cola and we have 3 "local" tv stations, though only one is actually based in Pensacola. The other 2 are based in Mobile, AL.

Hi neighbor. :seeya: Okaloosa county here; our local paper has had only a sprinkling of articles about the case. Would you be surprised if a county in the panhandle is selected? I would; I think the defense would object that we're too small-town-ish. (Not that I think we are. :luv

 

[Nore]

LOl im in the sarasota Port carlotte area..

And are they not going to bring Jurors in from like miami or someplace else instead of moving the trial just bring in impartial jurors it s tooo expensive to move this trial.

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I agree. Do to Floridas financial state they should just go
ahead with Orange county,let the people go home at night with instructions.
This happened so long ago and put off (thanks Defense) that most people or many I should say have forgotten about it.The Defense cannot expect a bottomless wallet in this economy.They should have shut up and went for it 2 years ago.IMO
They wanted a delay,they got it!! :maddening:

 

[Nore]

What's the betting they will ask the potential Jurors if they are members of WS?

Reply: What, who me? Naaw!! :floorlaugh:

 

[Nore]

I've been checking my mailbox AND the mailboxes of all my neighbors to see if any Jury Summons come in. HaHa

Of course if they did...I'd have to keep it a secret.

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SOTS, yeah right.:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::great:
we'd have to offer you chocolates,Vodka,Beer,
anything your heart desires;LOL
Seriously I bet they are going full blast at checking out the location already.
:woohoo:

 

[LaLaw2000]

I am guessing Ft. Walton Beach area. It is so in the panhandle that it is almost not in Florida, LOL!

It has to be in northern Florida because HH stated he will "bring them down here" if a complete jury is chosen. (maybe select a jury in Orlando if one cannot be selected up there, wherever there is)

JMO

 

[LaLaw2000]

I've been checking my mailbox AND the mailboxes of all my neighbors to see if any Jury Summons come in. HaHa

Of course if they did...I'd have to keep it a secret.

Where do you live, SOTS? Not the town, just northeastern, north, northwestern, or south Florida?

J/K