Aaron Hernandez -- Guilty of 1st degree murder

this story was a lead news story, not sports-specific. anyone who doesn't know of AH and the Lloyd story can reasonably not be expected to know jack shit outside their own navels. hence, perfect jury members....

 

Oh, please. I can guarantee you that not having knowledge of Aaron Hernandez had about as much to do with a person's general knowledge as the ability to spell does. Your world and what makes it important/interesting is not necessarily anyone else's.

 

with all due respect, you as wrong as can be. a boston resident who has no idea of AH and what happened with lloyd is an incurious twit. they would literally have to never read a newspaper or watch the news or listen to the radio for like three fucking years. if those people exist -- and obviously they do -- they have no place being members of a jury of anyone's peers.

 

They are the people who call the paper to complain when a sports story appears on A1.

 

Of all of the players who have ever stepped onto an NFL field, my wife can name one. And that would hold true regardless of what city we lived in.

She is, however, familiar with hundreds of classical composers and has an IQ about three times higher than CD Boogie.

 

Oj?

 

Peyton. Couple of pieces of memorabilia around the house.

 

She doesn't know oj?

 

You clearly don't understand how a jury is supposed to work, with your prior comments about Hernandez's guilt in this specific case and this tangent.

The jury's job is to decide based on what is presented in court, not what is on local newscast, in the newspaper, and what you feel should be common knowledge.

 

I mentioned this "famous murder case" to her once, but neither the name not face mean anything. She's only been in the country 8+ years, and American football to her is like cricket to us.

Amazingly, however, Pat Boone is one of her favorite singers, and she decided to learn English after listening to the Beatles as a teen. Go figure.

 

No I know exactly how a jury works. It's often filled with the most out of touch people you can find, as was obviously the case again here. I get that you want jurors to be impartial and not biased by a previous judgment against Hernandez. But then you end up with this farce of a second trial -- where you have multiple people from Boston who hadn't even heard of him. So congrats to the defense for seating a jury comprised of the most out of touch people they could find.

 

wanna bet? So her ignorance of a well known murder trial that is broadcast in the news for more than theee years is supposed to be evidence of her intelligence? Got it. Glad she has her head down and can cite Rachmaninoff on Jeopardy though.