| Peterson jury pool loses, gains people
MAY 13, 2004 Jury selection in the Scott Peterson trial took two steps forward this morning but three steps back, leaving the final pool of qualified jurors at one less than Wednesday's total. On the day the Peterson jury had originally been scheduled to be seated, Judge Alfred Delucchi dismissed several jurors from having to serve. One juror had changed jobs, taking a position with a company that will not pay for five months of jury service. It was not clear why he excused the others. Seventy people are now in the final jury pool. About 60 prospective jurors arrived at the Hall of Justice and Records here today only to learn they would have to return May 27. They were a part of the initial 1,000 people summoned as jurors in the Peterson case. But Delucchi extended jury selection after failing to find enough people from which to pick the panel of 1 regular jurors and six alternates. Three hundred more people are scheduled to come in Monday and Tuesday to begin filling out questionnaires. Some people who returned today asked to be excused. One person did not show up. Delucchi cautioned the crowd to return May 27 or face "serious consequences." "I don't want to threaten anybody, but you're under a court order to be here," he said. "I know this is an imposition on your time. But there may be somebody in blue knocking on the door at your place of employment" if they don't show up. Three people from a new crop of jurors called in on Monday were qualified this morning. -JUROR 302 - A woman in her 50's, said her mother was a lawyer and her father was a judge. Both worked in another country, and it was something that would not enter into her deliberations if she was selected, she said. She said she got most of her news from television and had watched a cable movie about the case. She could set that aside, she said, and be a fair juror. "He doesn't look like a guilty person," she said. "His looks don't convey guilt." -JUROR 6917 - A woman in her 60's who is a retired human resources worker, said her grandson was kidnapped more than two decades ago. The boy's other grandmother abducted the boy and delivered him to the child's other parent, she said. For four years, 11 months and two days, she said, the boy's location was not known. It was a traumatic experience, she said, but not one that would color her judgment in the Peterson case. -JUROR 6869 - A woman in her 50's, works at Pacific Gas & Electric and said she was a moderate follower of the Peterson case. She did not have enough information to decide, she said, adding that the media focused on Peterson as if he was guilty. Unlike other jurors who have stared directly at the judge or lawyer during the talking, she glanced at Peterson several times. Once, she fixed her gaze on the man accused of killing his wife Laci, and the couple's unborn son before answering that she could hand down a death sentence. But stated, "I don't see a motive," she said. "I haven't seen anything about motive." HOME INDEX LACI SCOTT TRIAL NEWS JURORS COURT DATES |
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