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posted at 7:01 pm on April 5, 2014 by Jazz Shaw

This one immediately earns the tag of what could possibly go wrong? It seems that in Florida, it is common for the names of jurors to be released to the public once the trial is over. (Some of you lawyers in the crowd can help out by letting us know how common this is.) In cases where there might be substantial danger to the jurors or their families because of emotions running high in the community, that release may be delayed for a time, but not indefinitely. There was such a delay regarding the case of George Zimmerman in the Sunshine State, but now the clock has run out.

The names of the six-member jury panel that acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have been made public for the first time, after a new court order, records show.

Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who had previously ordered the jurors identifying information be kept confidential, granted access to the names in a ruling March 21.

Zimmermans defense asked the judge in June to keep the names secret until six months after the verdict. The judge set no timeline then, but noted in her new order they have been withheld more than eight months.

Attempts to reach the jurors by phone and in-person Thursday were unsuccessful.

Ill bet attempts to reach them were unsuccessful. If I was one of those jurors and had been watching the treatment that Zimmerman, his family and anyone who failed to condemn him sufficiently have received, Id be on my way to another state under an assumed name, if not another country. If this trial revealed anything useful about our society, its that there is no shortage of people who dont feel particularly bound to the constitutional idea of trial by jury, and will endeavor to set things to rights if a decision doesnt go the way they feel it should have.

Zimmermans own parents have been learning that lesson the hard way, and are now looking at having to sue television personality Roseanne Barr because of it. Wait what?

George Zimmermans parents are suing Roseanne Barr for tweeting their home address, which they say forced them to go into hiding for years.

Robert and Gladys Zimmerman have filed a lawsuit against Barr, accusing the comedian and actress of posting an open and obvious call for vigilante justice, which she intended to cause a lynch mob to descend on their Lake Mary, Florida, home.

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