johnson, the prosecutor responsible for doing justice in the states initially. they voted to elect her out, despite the demographic population there i m sorry, they voted her out of office. so that s one sign, but it s going to be difficult in a place like glen county to find a group of jurors who haven t already developed an opinion about the case. that s the real concern. i think when i was reading the reporting on this, it made me wonder how our jury is selected generally, a lot is from the voter rolls. if you are not a registered voter, you will not get called to vote. people are apathetic to the process and aren t voters. you think of voters suppression, particularly in georgia, the governor is quite the suppressor in suppression. right. if that s the case, we will be looking at a lot of all white juries in our future if voting
pleased in the direction that the case is going. i never thought the day we would pick jurors would come and the day has finally come. reporter: just to give you an idea of what they re up against, normally in a trial in glen county, they would call 150 potential jurors. they have called 1,000 jurors. first 600 showed up yesterday and yesterday they barely got through questioning a group of the first 20. this is going to take a while. brianna? all right, martin, thank you so much for that report. gabby petito s heart broken family is finally bringing her home. they travelled to wyoming over the weekend to retrieve her remains and we re hearing from gabby s mother and stepfather in a new emotional interview. cnn s randi kaye joining us now from punta gorda, florida. tell us what they re saying. reporter: good morning,
watch the process. when the judge cuts it off is when they get to specific questions to specific jurors. the judge won t allow the video to broadcast, but they do allow reporters and we get notes later. so jury selection, let s break it down by the numbers. if you look at those, they need 12 jurors obviously and 4 alternates. glen county normally in a trial would ask for about 150 people to show up to be possible jurors. in this case, they send out 1,000 jury summons. the first 600 had to show up as of yesterday. so far eight potential jurors have been dismissed, zero jurors have been selected so far, and they re interviewing these jurors groups of 20 at a time, the reason being to allow social distancing for coronavirus concerns. so what are the kind of questions they re being asked? anybody who s been on a jury or in a potential jury pool knows they ask you things like do you know the defendants, owe the
george floyd case it s possible to convict someone and george zimmerman case is someone acting like a police officer and was not a police officer and you saw the results of the case. those cases stand at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to justice. how hopeful are you they will be able to find a jury of 12 people that will see this case the way you heard ms. cooper describe it? the actions of the people of glen county in the past year give me hope and the past year they voted out jackie johnson. in the past year they galvanized and remain outside of the courtroom now demanding justice for ahmaud. there is legitimate concern about this community that ms. cooper just described and there is reasons for reservation, but i choose to be hopeful just because this community has proven over and over again that they re willing to go out of their way to ensure ahmaud gets
their actions showed just exactly that. i mean, we went 74 days with no arrests. they actually this case was almost closed. so yes, they were actually treated like they were law enforcement officers and nothing done about it. and do you think ms. cooper that if they had not had law enforcement ties that things would have gone differently or do you think this is simply because your son was a young black man and it wouldn t matter if they didn t have law enforcement connections? i think that the mcmichaels being affiliated with the police department played a factor in it however i think that race played a major factor in this all together. mr. merit, let s talk about this jury selection. 1,000 jury summons have gone out to find 12 jurors. 1 in every 85 people living in glen county have been called and one to two weeks for potential jury selection. now that you ve seen in the