obligated to point out the racial aspects, the social aspects, the prosecutor s incredible abuse of discretion here. i m being very judicious of what i m asking. but we ll continue to follow this. mark and jeff will stay with us. i want to get their take on how the sequestered jurors in george zimmerman s trial spent their time outside of court, everything from a trip to outback steakhouse to bowling and movies. also ahead, after george zimmerman s acquittal, president obama asked for calm reflection but he hasn t said anything else about the case since. we ll take a look at why. i want to make things more secure.
possibility. i m going to be honest, i m uncomfortable answering that. reporter: for now, her main home is an appellate court agrees to hear her case. she had a baby girl with rico grey three years ago, but only sees her child in photographs. rico grey has custody. he s considered the victim. his wife, the criminal. this is my life i m fighting for. this is my life, and it s my life is not entertainment. it is my life. reporter: the 20-year sentence is mandatory, meaning no chance of parole. gary tuchman, cnn, jacksonville, flp. we re joined by marisa alexander s attorney. bruce, where does your client s case stand? it s on appeal right now. we are in the first district court of appeals in tallahassee. the briefs have been filed and we re waiting for the court to respond to us, either with oral
tonight, new details about how the sequestered jurors spent their time when they weren t in court, details that start to fill out a picture of what they were doing over the three weeks and how isolating it is to be sequestered. we now know they spent 22 nights at the marriott hotel, they each got their own rooms. there was also a suite where they ate together and socialized. they worked out at the hotel gym, they went to movies approved by the court, and they also went bowling and shopping is, manicures and pedicures, fireworks on the fourth of july. they went out to eat a few times at local restaurants. and their families were allowed to visit on weekends. they also went on a road trip where they went to see the ripley s believe it or not museum. it s rare nowadays that you get a jury sequester. incredibly rare. there are not that many high profile cases and it s just incredibly expensive for the
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county. not just for the hotel rooms but because of the overtime for all the court officers who have to be with them all the time. it costs a fortune. how common is it to do these things? very common. i remember both during the peterson case, when they were not sequestered during the trial, but they were sequestered during deliberations, and i remember during o.j. one of my clients was the caterer for the group, and they had they could order what they wanted. they had outings. they went to amusement parks. the o.j. simpson case was months. and one of the things i think is so interesting, we ve seen the tension among the jurors. those sorts of arrangements breed tension. imagine being stuck with strangers for that long with only having limited contact with the outside world. there s only six people. it s hard to pair off and the