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Showing posts with label Jurors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jurors. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Friday, August 18, 2017
Big Brother Recap: Who Became Jurors?
Tensions in the Big Brother house have been boiling over for weeks on end now, and with a double eviction looming, the drama got crazier.
When the latest episode got underway, we got to see Josh attempt to move the target from Cody to Elena. He sneakily whispered in Cody’s ear that he was trying to save Jessica last week.
Cody does not seem to care, but Josh causes some drama, anyway.
In the kitchen, Josh asks Cody if Mark and Elena tried to align with him when he returned to the game. Cody says that was not the case, and Paul claims to Mark that it was the reassurance he needed in order to trust him again.
Elena, however, did not get off so easily and Josh lashed out at her for going wherever the power is. Elena claimed she was not a liar and they had it all wrong.
That was all Alex needed to chime in with her thoughts and reiterate to everyone that Elena is, indeed, a liar. Alex was salty because of her being made camp guide after Elena said she would not give her a punishment.
While all of the bickering was going on, Cody sat out back, giggling away like a little school girl. Was the target on him getting smaller?
When it came to the eviction speeches, Elena mumbled her way through an extra long one, and I still have no idea what she said.
Cody went for the jugular, saying that Alex and Jason wanted to make an alliance with him to take out Raven and Paul.
Matt claimed he still had more bowls of cereal to eat inside the house and it would be a travesty to take him out. Are these people even planning on playing the game?!
- Paul votes to evict: Cody
- Mark votes to evict: Cody
- Kevin votes to evict: Cody
- Josh votes to evict: Cody
- Raven votes to evict: Cody
- Jason votes to evict: Cody
- Christmas votes to evict: Cody
Cody was evicted by a vote of 7-0-0 and made a quick getaway over the coffee table. He did not say his goodbyes. He was done with everyone inside the house, and they knew it. Somebody even called him a “tool” on his way out the door.
Classy.
The houseguests then moved on to the HOH competition, and it was a classic elimination-style game.
- Round 1: Matthew vs Josh – Matthew eliminated
- Round 2: Mark vs Elena – Elena eliminated
- Round 3: Christmas vs Josh – Josh eliminated
- Round 4: Mark vs Raven – Raven eliminated
- Round 5: Kevin vs Christmas – Kevin eliminated
- Round 6: Mark vs Jason – Mark eliminated
- Round 7: Christmas vs Paul – Paul eliminated
- Round 8: Christmas vs Jason – Christmas eliminated
Jason wins!
As expected, Mark and Elena were thrown up on the block together. Josh started bullying them live on air and shouting “Bye” at them. He really is a bully, and it’s crazy the producers do not get him out.
Mark wins the POV competition, and Matt is sent up to sit next to Raven.
Every houseguest aside from Mark chooses to evict Elena, meaning she is the second member of the jury.
Poor Mark was left alone in the house, but with Matt and Raven being the sole showmance remaining, look for them to be targeted next alongside Mark.
Matt and Raven did compete in the POV competition, but it seemed like they wanted Mark to win to keep the target on him.
We closed out the episode with Julie announcing Derrick Levasseur would return on tonight’s special episode.
With the live feeds down all day today, we have no idea what to expect.
What did you think of the double eviction spectacular?
Sound off below!
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Steven Avery: Juror"s Ties to Manitowoc Sheriff"s Department Exposed!
As the national obsession with the bizarre murder trials of Steven Avery and his young nephew Brendan Dassey continues to grow, new evidence of corruption on the part of the authorities who helped put him away seems to surface daily.
Avery, of course, is the focus of the recent Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, which covers both his wrongful imprisonment for sexual assault at the age of 23, as well as his arrest and conviction for the murder of Teresa Halbach two decades later.
The filmmakers make a compelling case for why Manitowoc, Wisconsin law enforcement would have incentive to frame Avery and Dassey for Halbach’s murder, yet viewers of the series remain deeply divided on the question of whether police and prosecutors would have or even could have perpetrated such a conspiracy.
Avery was on the verge of receiving a $ 36 million settlement from the county as a result of spending 18 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, and Murderer establishes that several prominent local figures harbored intense hatred for Avery.
At one point in the documentary, investigators are shown coaxing a confession out of Dassey – Avery’s mentally impaired 16-year-old nephew – apparently for no other reason than it would be easier to convict Avery if they could prove he had an accomplice.
There’s too much damning evidence against the Manitowoc law enforcement and judicial systems to recount here, but after viewing the series in its entirety, even stalwart supporters of Avery are left with a number of questions:
For example, if Avery didn’t kill Halbach, who did? And with so much at stake, how did Manitowoc officials ensure that the jury would turn in a guilty verdict?
The first of those questions may have been answered yesterday when it was revealed that Steven believes his brothers Chuck and Earl Avery may murdered Halbach, but his theory was buried by the courts for six years.
Earlier today, a shocking new allegation may have revealed the lengths to which prosecutors were willing to go to guarantee a favorable outcome for the state.
According to a report from the website OnMilwaukee.com, a man who frequently volunteered for the Manitowoc Sheriff’s Department was chosen to be on Avery’s jury despite the obvious conflict of interest.
The site claims that the juror – Carl Wardman – was not just a local with law enforcement ambitions who went on the occasional ride-along, but an “an official and very active volunteer for the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department” who worked with deputies at the same time the trial was going on.
To make matters worse, sources say Carl Wardman’s son, Chris Wardman, “worked as a Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department supervisor in the jail during the trial.”
Wardman admitted all of this during pre-trial screening, but Avery’s defense attorney, Dean Strang, says he was essentially forced to let him through, because at least at six other jurors appeared to be more biased against Avery than Wardman was.
We understand this a complex case with a lot of conflicting evidence, but at this point, it’s hard to believe that any reasonable person wouldn’t at least have doubts as to whether or not Avery and Dassey committed the crimes of which they’ve been accuses.
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