Libby Trial: media room, blog and IM comments
A little more chatter from the media room, from blogs and IMs, loosely written in live blogging...
Joking in the media room…
Does anyone know if it is a woman or man that has been exposed to information….
One person suggests the writing looks like a woman’s…
Another asks if there were little hearts over the I’s
A third says, I’d better not see that on the CNN ticker….
I pipe up that I can write that sort of stuff. I’m a blogger.
People all quickly declaim that in that case, everything they say is off the record.
This is fun…
People are already talking about mistrial. How many jurors were tainted? Is it enough to make a fair verdict unlikely?
Another comments, I don’t know why they didn’t sequester these guys.
Current court room chatter is that someone heard a joke on late night TV and repeated it to the other jurors.
Meanwhile, a reporter asks me about my blog and wishes for the freedom that we bloggers have.
Update: As we sit and wonder how long this will take, one reporter observes that in a previous incident it took half an hour to question one juror, and that this could take all day.
Around me, people have their emails ready to go... "Judge has returned... Court back in session... STAND BY!" Some people have four different emails ready...