12 jurors selected in Jonathan Ferrell shooting trial...

stringer bell

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article29110597.html

12 jurors selected in police shooting trial; 4 alternates to go

The 12th juror was selected Tuesday morning in the trial of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer charged with voluntary manslaughter for an on-duty shooting of an unarmed man in 2013.

That means four alternate jurors are still needed for jury selection to be complete in the trial of Randall “Wes” Kerrick, who is charged in the death of 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell. Kerrick is white and Ferrell is black. The trial comes at a time when some other cities have experienced violent demonstrations in response to fatal encounters between white police and African-American men.

The 12th juror is a 67-year-old black man who is a military veteran. He is the only black man selected so far. The jury also includes four white men, three white women, two Latina women and two black women.

This is the second week of jury selection, and so far the process has gone more quickly than many observers expected. If the pace holds up, opening arguments could begin this week. Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin told the 12th juror it was OK to take care of a personal matter on Wednesday morning, indicating that he does not expect jury selection to be finished by then.

Attorneys for the prosecution and the defense both have used four of the six strikes they are allowed to eliminate potential jurors for no reason. So far, the strikes have fallen along racial lines with the defense eliminating four African-American women and the prosecution disallowing four whites.

The judge can dismiss any number of potential jurors for cause, and allowed another one to go home on Tuesday after she said she had already made up her mind about guilt.

Those black folks on that jury need stand together so Jonathan Ferrell's family can get some justice...

skpjr78

? the pigs

Koltrain

I'm glad this case is going to trial. Now we need justice....This punk ass cop shot Ferrell like 10 times..

stringer bell

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article29272549.html

Kerrick trial has its jurors; testimony begins Monday

The voluntary manslaughter trial against Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Randall “Wes” Kerrick will begin on Monday morning now that a full slate of jurors has been selected.

Four alternates were chosen Wednesday, the last at just after 4 p.m. All of the alternates are white. The 12 seated jurors include seven whites, three blacks and two Latinos.

SMDH...

MARIO_DRO

..HADNT HEARD OF THIS CASE...