The Daily Background
| Libby jury requests 4 tell-tale items
by Arlen Parsa
The jury in the Libby Trial requested the following items today before recessing to take up deliberations again tomorrow: post-it notes, masking tape, a document with pictures of the witnesses, and something called a “large flip chart.” Whatever that means.
What could the jury possibly be doing with masking tape, stickies, pictures of the witnesses and said “large flip chart”? (Is this a large flip chart like Google Image Search says it is?)
If we were to be seriously scrutinizing these requests, with all the serious seriousness we’ve learned from the John Grisham novel “The Runaway Jury,” we’d probably be speculating that some of the jurors couldn’t remember the names of the witnesses, so that’s why the asked for a document with their names a photos on them.
The stickies, it would seem, might be stuck on the flip chart. Maybe they’re making a chart out of how Libby’s identify spread with a name on each post-it note?
The masking tape? Why to cover the mouth of some of the louder jury members, of course!
Update: Okay, I was kind of just kidding and making fun of people over-analyzing these sorts of things, but Jane Hamsher, one of the bloggers with courtroom media passes had this to say of the jury’s requets:
Early this morning the jury asked for an easel and pictures of all the witnesses, and it seemed likely they wanted to map out some sort of diagram or timeline for the case. Since there is both an MIT Ph.d and a mathematician on the jury, it’s also seems likely that the jury is taking a reasoned approach to determining a verdict. That does not bode well for Ted Wells’ highly emotional, “give me back my baby Scooter” entreaties.
