Third Day of Voir Dire Drags On

Any notion that voir dire would get done today seems to be fading fast as they've been at it now for two hours and managed to get very little done.

One prospective juror took up about an hour fending off attempts by the defense to get her to admit that her feelings about the Bush Administration (not warm and fuzzy) might possibly influence her decision-making. She was excused. So was the next one.

Basically, we are not any closer to a jury than we were yesterday afternoon when the court recessed.

The problem is that juror after juror seems to either work in the government, know people involved in the case in some way, or have strongly held political views. Contrary to some of the media reports I have seen, not all of these views are anti-Bush either. One woman who worked for an aerospace company was pretty gung-ho on Iraq and was someone with family in the military. Bottom line, people in this town are just too tight-knit.