I have attached a news article about a juror causing an outburst during jury selection. I'm appalled that someone could act so disrespectful to the court.
An outburst from a member of the courtroom gallery has interrupted jury selection in the murder trial of an Orlando woman accused of killing her daughter.
The proceedings went into recess Friday after a woman sitting the Pinellas County courtroom gallery yelled, "She killed somebody, anyway" in the direction of defendant Casey Anthony while Judge Belvin Perry was questioning a prospective juror.
The woman, white and in her 30s, was escorted out of the courtroom by deputies and Perry sent the potential juror back into a holding room. Perry held her in contempt of court. The potential juror was excused.
Perry hopes to seat a jury of at least 12 sometime Friday. Jury selection is being held outside of Orlando because of intense pretrial publicity.
Read more: http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2011-05-23/Inside-the-Casey-Anthony-murder-trial#ixzz1N1rQMcYj
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