Rumpole wrote:
Good points liesel
I think as
a matter of principle anybody deficient in ENGLISH should be excluded from assessing testimony.. especially in a MURDER case.
IMO that "rule" should apply to all candidate.. not just recent immigrants. ALL the DeeDee's would be excluded as an example (and probably Crump)
However... as you say... in the wider "Mental Chess" game now..... the tactic could be to use up a Bernie strike

How dumb is the juror to make an issue of an obscure blogger comment in front of a World Wide audience?
He has assured that he will now be known as "The Moaning Mexican"
Absolutely laughing
at "The Moaning Mexican" and
with you.
It really should be that the guy feels some stigma being from Mexico which has more than its fair share of its citizens illegally crossing the US border. Unfortunately, I think it's much more likely The Moaning Mexican thought that would garner him some PC points as a victim and help to get him excused. He's a citizen now, you know, and may be already assimilated into the "victim" culture promoted by the PC purveyors.
There is absolutely no question that anyone not proficient in the language should not be weighing evidence. Some of that evidence will be written and the guy had to have his wife write his note from home excusing him from jury service. However, because they're a bunch of PC people generally and highly aware of the cameras, apparently no one wanted to voice such a
xenophobic concern during the first round. Of course, that was when the poster boy of their cultural awareness
wanted to be on the jury. Heh heh heh. Now it would be difficult to remove him for that reason, I would think.
BDLR clearly wants TMM gone. That's a pretty good reason right there to fight to keep him until BDLR burns a strike on him. BDLR may be picturing O'Mara's closing directed solely at The Moaning Mexican, including phrases in Spanish, etc. That one guy can hang the jury. There is no way that BDLR is going to let the guy stay. He will use a strike on him. TMM is a nightmare for the prosecution. They need all six to vote to convict and can't tailor to just one.
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