Comments on: Wright: Deaf Community Backlash

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:56:13 +0000

This is how unfair this whole thing is going to be. You can’t say that she’s going to be heard by a jury of her peers.

03/26/2007
Minorities Underrepresented In Jury Selection

Attorneys have questioned more than 100 potential jurors in the Daphne Wright murder case, but none of them share the suspect’s race.

Wright’s attorneys asked for a mistrial, because the defendant is black, and they say the process was unfair.

The judge denied the request for a mistrial, saying minorities weren’t excluded from the selection process just because of their race â€” even though two Native Americans were the only non-whites to get questioned.

But the judge approved another request that now extends jury selection into Tuesday.

Monday afternoon, attorneys approved the 59th potential juror. That was the number they needed. Of those 59 people, each side would then eliminate 22, leaving 12 jurors and three alternates to sit through the trial.

But Judge Brad Zell approved the defense’s request for an extra option. Wright’s lawyers will now get to strike down 23 and the prosecution 22, so jury selection will resume Tuesday to find one more potential juror.

Of those 60 people who could decide whether Wright lives or dies, none of them have the same racial background as the defendant. Wright’s lawyers criticized the jury selection process, pointing out that pools did not come close to representing Minnehaha County’s 9.6% minority population.

But during questioning about the death penalty, each potential juror said they could give Wright a fair trial. And if there’s a guilty verdict they’d be able to put aside their personal beliefs, listen to the evidence, then decide whether death or life without parole is the right sentence.

On Tuesday, the last pool of jurors will come in for questioning. And as long as one of them is approved as a potential juror, the selection process will end â€” three weeks after it started.

By: Mishka Zena

Mishka Zena — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:57:01 +0000

Now it is you who are assuming. I know for a fact some have already met Daffy and their impression of her are very poor.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:03:27 +0000

Or Mishkazena, have you considered the possibility that they are doing precisely what you are doing. ASSUMING that you know something when in actuality, you don’t have a clue. Just as no one has the right to kill another human being, they don’t have the right to just assume and make up things on a forum such as this.

It’s amazing to me how easily you all are to convict someone based on things you’ve supposedly heard or read about.

(last paragraph deleted due to offensive comment)

By: mishkazena

mishkazena — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:50:32 +0000

Well, perhaps because they’ve met her and didn’t have anything positive to say about her.

By: baby

baby — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:34:25 +0000

oh yea i dont like it becuz people r doing this is just talking bad bad negative negative things!!!! DUH!!!!

By: sweet

sweet — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:29:38 +0000

hey, i wonder that dw not kind of mental as good common sense really real silly not point mental wrong idea!!!!

By: Mishka Zena

Mishka Zena — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:25:56 +0000

Nobody has the right to kill an innocent person.

If you don’t like the blog and the comments, then don’t come here ::shrug::

By: baby

baby — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:20:14 +0000

hey no one needs to talk very negative things abt daphne wright for god’s sake! i mean leave her alone!! u all should know that she has an angry issue and she has it when she was young so will have alot of plms.. she cant be helped the way she is.. i dont know her that well or talk to her in person but i dont have no reason to talk bad things about her.. i dont care if u all dont like the way i said abt her then that would be ur all PROBLEM!

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:11:24 +0000

I hope Daphne gets a fair trial but a communication accessible – MUST HAVE. In comparsion to the white Deaf guy CL who was raised in the upper class family is currently in a jail in NC for murder of his girlfriend. His trial date will be held in August ’07. He is extremely intelligent and his English skill is very high. Like Daphne, he still has to have a communication accessible in court too. His trial has been postponing for nearly three years due to lack of interpreters. I am sure Daphne’s case will be postponed too. Her case is a quite interesting because of her nationality, deafness, lesbian and so on. I like to hear both sides of Daphne and CL’s case.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:41:39 +0000

Ridor says: “No, Daphne does not have college degree. Never had a stable job. And all that.

She is truly mentally deficient at its best. Maybe delayed development, perhaps.”

Are you serious? That statement alone tells me you know NOTHING of her. That’s a verifiable lie. Perhaps your own mental acuity should be tested for putting such blatant and unfounded lies on this forum. Wow, absolutely unbelievable. Lies!