{"id":5799,"date":"2013-09-28T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2013-09-28T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T13:49:39","slug":"mistrial-in-first-quitman-10-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/mistrial-in-first-quitman-10-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Mistrial in first Quitman 10 trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5ZOy3s4nfQ\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/o5ZOy3s4nfQ\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe trial of Lula Smart ended in a mistrial,<br \/>\nreports George Boston Rhynes from the Courthouse in Brooks County.<br \/>\nSo the first of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/quitman-102-trial-three-years-late.html\"><br \/>\nthe Quitman 10<\/a><br \/>\nis going<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/madison-9-down-to-2.html\"><br \/>\nlike the Madison 9<\/a> did.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5ZOy3s4nfQ\"><br \/>\nPart 1 of 3:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5ZOy3s4nfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Q3MTKSn1z8\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/aTzmQWIr_P4\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nGeorge says witnesses today talked about voter intimidation<br \/>\nand some said they would not vote again because of this<br \/>\ninvestigation on the Quitman 10+2.<br \/>\nHe says the GBI agent was asked how they were trained before<br \/>\nthey were sent to Brooks County, and they had little training<br \/>\nin voting investigations, plus they took ballots home from<br \/>\nthe Board of Elections, including some with no addresses<br \/>\nfor any of the persons they were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorge also reported WCTV had a camera in the courtroom,<br \/>\nafter you may recall<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/quitman-102-trial-three-years-late.html\"><br \/>\nthe Judge told George<\/a> he couldn&#8217;t even record from the street in<br \/>\nthe front of the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Q3MTKSn1z8\"><br \/>\nPart 2 of 3:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Q3MTKSn1z8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPXBatwQloE\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/wPXBatwQloE\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nGeorge interprets this mistrial as ending all the trials.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe defendants&#8217; attorney Chevene B. King Jr. reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9981309403\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Attorney Chevene B. King Jr.\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7315\/9981309403_b54f9f5521_n.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney Chevene B. King Jr.\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe judge reconsidered a motion for mistrial<br \/>\nthat we had made a couple of days ago because of<br \/>\ncomments that he &#8230; that had prejudiced Ms. Smart&#8217;s right to a fair trial.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe judge said there was nothing he could say that could make the jurors<br \/>\nforget what was heard, so he declared a mistrial.<br \/>\nGeorge asked if it was also because of the evidence stacking up.<br \/>\nThe attorney said if the trial had continued there were good grounds<br \/>\nfor acquittal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPXBatwQloE\"><br \/>\nPart 3 of 3:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPXBatwQloE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by George Boston Rhynes on YouTube.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of Lula Smart ended in a mistrial, reports George Boston Rhynes from the Courthouse in Brooks County. So the first of the Quitman 10 is going like the Madison 9 did. Here&#8217;s Part 1 of 3: George says witnesses today talked about voter intimidation and some said they would not vote again because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,49,2,19,20,1526,133],"tags":[8797,1587,6983,8721,407,8701,6980,8699,8709,1673,6981,6982,8702,8710,12,1586,8834,8742],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bostongbr","category-elections","category-government","category-history","category-law","category-quitman-10","category-vdt","tag-bostongbr","tag-brooks-county","tag-david-miller","tag-elections","tag-george-boston-rhynes","tag-georgia","tag-gladys-lee","tag-government","tag-history","tag-john-robinson","tag-judge-ronnie-joe-lane","tag-jury-selection","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-quitman","tag-quitman-10","tag-vdt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}