(All of the below copied from one of the "daily jury stuff" boards. I'm totally confused about where to post.)
O'Mara's presser. Happy that we'll be able to seat a jury in Seminole County. It's moving along well, pretty fast, from an insider's perspective. Jurors have been mostly truthful, a few examples otherwise, but have been found out. Confident that outside influences won't have play. (distracted here) O'Mara says he's not concerned that people bring in predispositions. What he cares about is jurors who have predispositions but don't tell the court. Stealth juror, unbelievably dangerous to the case and the system, lose faith in the system, start having justice on the streets. Soap box on stealth jurors. Defense found him out. Could easily have gotten by them, they were lucky to catch them, need to redouble effort on jurors yet to come, catching E7 was coincidence. He would have thought there were more people with more information. He thought the press would have imparted more information and opinions. So, he is concerned that maybe people aren't being open with their degree of knowledge. He saw a lot about this case in the 2 weeks before he signed on. He is surprised that the press has not had more of an impact on the jurors.
He did hear that E7 came back and was trespassed to get off the property. He was attempting to get to jurors. If he had been successful, may have wasted the week of jury selection. O'Mara is glad the sheriff caught him. E7 is lucky O'Mara is not the sheriff.
Frye hearing Monday afternoon starting at 4PM. He figures 3 hours for the defense witness. State has right to bring rebuttal witnesses, and if so, they will come Tuesday. Decision comes at judge's pace.
Did not schedule deposition with Crump, other than sometime before testimony in trial begins.
Asked why 2-4 weeks, instead of 4-6? He says the difference is jury selection. There is also the issue of the Frye hearing decision (experts or not), which affects the trial by a week, or a touch more.
Back to the subject of jurors not having much information. If he was to ask 20 people in the Sanford Mall, he thinks all of them would know more than the jurors put in front of the lawyers in the jury selection process.
5:23 presser over.
