re: I was a member of the jury on the Garrett Ward trial. AMA.

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r they never got it. ??

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Are you suggesting that the DA's office withheld exculpatory evidence, or are you suggesting that Ward's defense team never requested it?

Prosecution asked during voire dire

How much wood would a wood…. Oh hell just answer

Yep, total thug POS.

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And the jury resembled the demographics of the city of New Orleans.

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Want to show your work there, REG861?

Per OP, the jury was 2 white 1 Asian 11 black (including 2 alternates).

Per World Population Reviews, LINK, the make up is as follow:

According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of New Orleanswas:

Black or African American: 59.22%
White: 33.40%
Asian: 2.89%
Two or more races: 2.55%
Other race: 1.75%
Native American: 0.18%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.01%.

If we do a quick bit of arithmetic, we get a jury of 8 black, 5 white, and 1 asian.

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Want to show your work there, REG861?

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Ok it was lazy to say it was an exact match for the city’s demographics. But as we know Nola is a chocolate city. The jury being mostly black isn’t shocking. You’re not going to win an appeal based on a Batson type issue because there weren’t enough white people.

So I was watching first 48 yesterday. The episode was from New Orleans. A black male was charged with 2nd degree murder. With evidence, witnesses and a confession of killing an unarmed male in a robbery.
Received 20 years.

This guy beats up a homeless man, that was going through his pockets, who died weeks later, no evidence, receives 30 years hard labor.

So there was a no reasonable doubt? The jury really believed 100%?
Sounds like bullshite. Shouldn’t matter which day the knife pic came, and there was no dna test on the knife? Because he didn’t say anything to police, while still intoxicated?

Sounds like there was plenty of doubt.

30 years hard labor to rehabilitate this guy?How does this sentencing make sense?

Sounds like a “make an example” verdict and sentencing.

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So there was a no reasonable doubt?

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Reasonable doubt to what? Ward beat the guy, fled the scene, cops picked him up hiding in a parking garage. He never denied beating Jackson. The only issue anyone is getting hung up about is whether or not Jackson was going through Ward's pocket or not (Ward's story with absolutely zero evidence).

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I would have sought a change of venue based on the argument that a fair trial could not be hade in OP.

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Based on...?

Because black people?

This wasn't a very high profile case. More than most, but still, certainly not the talk of the town.

He could get just as fair of a trial here than anywhere else.