, of pinellas county when i ran in 2005.and be we won 90% of the vote in the midtown community during that re-election. that will tell you that they believed we turned that part of the community in a different direction. it's important to do. you cannot do -- you can't do the rest of your thety -- [inaudible] if you try to do downtown or bring job or help your neighborhoods and part of your community is lagging way behind, you not going to be able to advance it. you've got to change it. thank you so much for having me, and i look forward to your questions. [applause] >> folks, now we're going to turn over to some q&a. i'd just like to remind everyone a question always ends in a question mark. so, um, and, please, wait for the mic to come around. but i'm going to take moderator's prerogative and just ask a quick question and, mr. mayor, we'll bring you up here. you mentioned when you were talking and articulating the third job of a mayoring being te articulation of a vision for your city. you had touched on public employee un

. >> reporter: the 12 jurors from pinellas county were faced with the civic duty of determining the fateassigning responsibility and sorting out who's to blame. >> reporter: stetson law professor charles rose believes the jurors properly followed the evidence presented. >> you don't have anyone who is familiar with the way the legal system actually works, as television, saying that they got it wrong. the moment that justice becomes more involved with the story ending the way the audience wants it to end, that's the moment where we don't have any justice anymore. >> reporter: in pinellas county, brad davis, abc news. >> and you know, it's really tough. many people are saying, if it's ananconsolation, you try to think about what the jurors heard and learned, you know. the duration of this trial that we don't know. >> right, while they were sequestered. >> you really need the facts to equate to the evidence before you make your decision. still, it doesn't give you much of a warm, fuzzy feeling. >> no closure for folks on this and i think it's part of the problem. it's going to go on that wa

the defense in this case, i would submit, requires you to suspend your common sense, to leave in pinellasounty everything you know about how people think and act and why they do what they do. it is a trip down the rabbit hole, into a bizarre world where men who love their granddaughters find them drown and do nothing. where men who love their granddaughter, take an accident, a completely innocent act, and make it look like a murder for no reason. a world where a man who buries his pets, will take the granddaughter who was the love of his life, and throw her in a swamp. >> diana, and mark, bob massi and anna-sigga are back with us. there you had jeff ashton with a little more fire and brimstone saying you know, enough is enough about that cronk and george anthony stuff. did he disspell any in their minds, in george being involved and cronk burying the body. >> the way he put it together, he showed how they make no sense and you've got to piecemeal, piece by piece, during the defense. but the way that jeff ashton put it together for the jury, i hope they walk away saying, now we have it all

these jurors came from pinellas county and the hometown paper is the st. petersburg times. holes cut out of the newspaper. anything having to do with the casey anthony murder trial this was home. every morning at about 6:00, the jury would wake up. they would eat breakfast. by 8:00 they are at the courthouse. by 5:00, the court was ending, typically. sometimes it went later. back here 6, 6:30 sometimes they had events planned, sometime they didn't. there were excursions. we are near universal studios in orlando. only 10 minutes from here as well as seaworld. don't know if they went to those places many they went to arabian nights, movies. saturdays it was a shorter day. some of them to say they played poker and have a poker night and have a little bit of fun in and relax a little saturday. the week were long days. sunday was a day of relaxation. sunday the jury would be out at the swimming pool. in the afternoon, from 2 to 11 p.m. family members were able to come and visit with them. if there were no visitors for some they could go on an excursion outside of the hotel. this

the defense in this case, i would submit, requires you to suspend your common sense, to leave in pinellasounty everything you know about how people think and act and why they do what they do. it is a trip down the rabbit hole, into a bizarre world where men who love their granddaughters find them drown and do nothing. where men who love their granddaughter, take an accident, a completely innocent act, and make it look like a murder for no reason. a world where a man who buries his pets, will take the granddaughter who was the love of his life, and throw her in a swamp. >> diana, and mark, bob massi and anna-sigga are back with us. there you had jeff ashton with a little more fire and brimstone saying you know, enough is enough about that cronk and george anthony stuff. did he disspell any in their minds, in george being involved and cronk burying the body. >> the way he put it together, he showed how they make no sense and you've got to piecemeal, piece by piece, during the defense. but the way that jeff ashton put it together for the jury, i hope they walk away saying, now we have it all

these jurors came from pinellas county and the hometown paper is the st. petersburg times. cut out of the newspaper. anything having to do with the casey anthony murder trial this was home. every morning at about 6:00, the jury would wake up. they would eat breakfast. by 8:00 they are at the courthouse. by 5:00, the court was ending, typically. sometimes it went later. back here 6, 6:30 sometimes they had events planned, sometime they didn't. there were excursions. we are near universal studios in orlando. only 10 minutes from here as well as seaworld. don't know if they went to those places many they went to arabian nights, movies. saturdays it was a shorter day. some of them to say they played poker and have a poker night and have a little bit of fun in and relax a little saturday. the week were long days. sunday was a day of relaxation. sunday the jury would be out at the swimming pool. in the afternoon, from 2 to 11 p.m. family members were able to come and visit with them. if there were no visitors for some they could go on an excursion outside of the hotel. this was h

now they have to go to pinellas county and say to neighbors who may have believed casey anthony was guiltyce. decided after six, seven weeks of trial, 12 hours of deliberation, i didn't believe they proved their case. >> her mom, her dad thinks she guilty. >> it is not about that. i was surprised at the verdict. i thought they proved their case. i spent my entire career -- i spent 16 years doing this. i believe our jury system works, i was disappointed here. i think the reason -- i think it is going to be a reasonable doubt question. >> sean: make the case for me. >> we are not going to start with the lies, you are right there that doesn't prove her guiltive murder. start with a baby phone duct taped in a swamp. -- baby found duct tape in a swamp. murder. you look at the mom. you go to her car in her car you have a hair they've proven is hers, based on dna that came back to the family. it does back to everyone else. >> sean: it is a family car. >> it is postmortem, it was after death. you have every way to prove decomposition. cadaver dogs that said it smelled like death. >> sean: you had

by the defense in this case i would submit require you to suspend your common sense, to leave in pinellas county everything you know about how people think and act and why they do what they do. it's a trip down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world where men who love their granddaughters find them drown and do nothing, where men who love their granddaughters take an accident, a completely innocent act, and make it look like a murder for no reason. a world where a man who buries his pets will take the granddaughter who was the love of his life and throw her in a swamp. this is the world that the defense invites you to occupy. and a world where a guy who runs across a skull and reports it three times to the police and is blown off by them, takes the skull and the mandible which is worth a lot of reward money, takes it home for four months, puts tape on it somehow and then brings it back and sets it back where it was and calls the police. in any world, even the most morally bankrupt, greedy, reprehensible reprabate, if they're motivated by money oopsz and want to report finding a child's skull

now a restaurant has put up a sign saying the pinellas county jurors are not welcome. they disagreed with the verdict. it's their right, he says, if they want to pick and choose who comes in their place of establishment so they put the sign up. some of their customers agree. some disagree. certainly it is a troubling sign. >> we sort of saved the interesting headline i guess for the last, most interesting, twist in all of this. a lightning strike at the tree where caylee anthony was the memorial site. this happened, apparently, during the sentencing? i mean, this just seems a little too eerie. >> reporter: right. make of this what you will. it occurred yesterday. we have some very stormy weather as you've heard down there in the cape area and same up here and shortly after release date for casey anthony. a lightning strike. nobody saw it but it did damage to the tree and a tree located in the swampy grove area where caylee anthony's memorial is. what does it mean? somebody taking sides here from above? well, i suppose viewers have to read into it what they will but it

ever since she's been home at pinellas county her life has gotten difficult and hair woeing. a nursing student, a nice woman doing her civic duty. she is strongly suspicious of casey anthony's behavior and she thinks the defense lawyers lied during opening statements. they did not believe there was certainty beyond a reasonable doubt that casey anthony is guilty. ever since that verdict she has received hate mail and death threats. she can't believe what's happened since she was summoned to jury duty. >> when you look back on it do you wish you had not been a part of this jury? >> i would have been okay to not be a part of that. >> why do you say that? >> just because for six weeks we had minimal freedoms, and then the welcoming committee -- i'm being sarcastic, but you come home and everyone's mad at you, and the media's outside hounding you and making it clear they're not leaving. and it's just very stressful. and you get anonymous letters from people that are hateful and nasty. >> what have people said in these letters? >> honestly, i read probably the first sentence and i

you all are residents of pinellas county, florida, and we came over there, met with you, questioned you, and took you away from your families for a very extended period of time. and for that, i say thank you. as i told you when i first spoke with you in talking about jury service, that one of the most important obligations of citizenship in my opinion was service on a jury. i told you it was very important that if we believed in that constitutional provision, that provision that provides a right to trial by jury, that it was important for people to serve no matter what that sacrifice would be. as you can tell by some of the questions that some folks answered, a lot of people did not want to serve. and you knew it would be a hardship. and you were candid with the attorneys. you answered all of their questions, and you served, and for that, we thank you. of some special privileges enjoyed by jurors. no juror can ever be required to talk about this discussions that occurred in the jury room except by court order. for many centuries, our society has relied on juries for decision of difficul

>> reporter: it was here in the pinellas county courthouse in clearwater, florida, where the jurors were selected. >> could you raise your hand in the jury room and vote for death? >> you always look at them with great hope. and you say her life, her case is in your hands. >> reporter: richard gabriel was a jury consultant for the defense. he says the team felt the cards were stacked against them. >> we knew from the very beginning that we probably would not get the jury that we needed, that we wouldn't be on a level playing field. >> reporter: the reason? >> why didn't mommy call police? >> mind-blowing new details in the casey anthony murder case. >> reporter: so much pre-trial publicity they feared it would make it impossible to find impartial jurors. so t ty were looking for something specific. >> a good juror for the defense is somebody who is skeptical. somebody who is so strong, courageous and individual that could resist the public pressure to convict her. >> reporter: we do know they all said they'd be willing to impose the death penalty. one juror doesn't even have a computer o

but this sign was put up in a deli in clearwater pinellas county jurors not wellcome the honor to puthis own opinion the jurors could demand restaurants and he would not even know who they are. strong a motion when it comes to restaurants. this just in to the kron 4 news from we now have the mob got shot of quebec guy that was arrested for stealing that picasso painting off the wall police will be releasing more information on this in just a few minutes that is a look idiom. >> the california highway upper patrol were on and successful in their second attempt to get this it off the of road way they have reopened one lane this will be much longer. >> dr.phil talks to desperate parents on their out of control and daughter >> and we thank you for being with us on this busy day you have a great thinker

. >> in pinellas county, florida, teachers aren't even able to communicate with their students onlineernet is not going away. so who should draw the line here? should be this a local issue, a state issue, a federal issue? what do you think? >> i think a school issue is a better idea than taking it bigger, but i would hope that the schools would make the right decision and not block any access really, and have some teachers monitoring the students' while they're online. nobody should be doing inappropriate anything on facebook or twitter or wherever anyway. if there's no inappropriate behavior, there's going to be mo problem. >> what is the message here to these kids, to these students? >> the message is that the adults are afraid of technology they don't understand and they need to -- i agree again with the last speaker, they need to adapt with the times. you know, we have kids bringing smart phones to schools and schools telling the children they will take them away rather than figuring out how to use those smart phones as a device for learning. technology is enhance learning and wha

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>> what we know is that they are from pinellas county near tampa, out of towners. they're almost evenly split between men and women, 7 women, 5 men. half of them have children. at least two or more children. it three of them have a medical background. there's also one interesting durr works for the child welfare administration. so we'll have to keep an eye out how all of their backgrounds come to bear on this verdict. >> all right. jessica stone reporting live, thank you so much. >>> a 71-year-old washington state man will be in court today to face extradition after being charged in connection with a 1957 kidnapping and murder of a girl in illinois. jack daniel mccullough was arrested yesterday at the retirement community where he lived he kidnapped and killed seven years into maria in 1957. police say he was a suspect back then but had an alibi. the case ran cold after he changed his name and joined the military. but police say new information in the past several years led them to refocus on mccullough and discredit his alibi. work no more than 16 straight hours i

you all are residents of pinellas county, florida, and we came over there, met with you, questioned you and took you away from your families for a very extended period of time. and for that i say thank you. as i told you when i first spoke with you in talking about jury service that one of the most important obligations of citizenship, in my opinion, was service on a jury. i told you it was very important that if we believe in that constitutional provision, that provision that provides a right to trial by jury, that it was important for people to serve no matter what that sacrifice would be. as you can tell by some of the questions that some folks answered, a lot of people did not want to serve. and you knew it would be a hardship, and you were candid with attorneys. you answered all their questions, and you served. and for that we thank you. i would also wish to advise you of some very special privileges enjoyed by jurors. no juror can ever be required to talk about the discussions that occurred in the jury room except by court order. for many centuries our society has relied upon juri

. >> i got an article here, skyline chile in clearwater that says hey, the pinellas county jurors areme here. we've showed the sign a moment ago. they might come here, maybe they'll slip in. they might decide to eat their chili somewhere else. >> i don't think they would go there. another juror has spoken out to the st. petersburg newspaper. he's a 46-year-old guy, father of two. he's one of the two people, we told you yesterday that apparently on the first ballot, they found 10-2 to acquit on the first ballot. he was one of the two. he said if the verdict was on emotion, anthony would have been guilty but there was not enough evidence. here's a guy who spent his 46th birthday sequestered and thought long and hard about it but he simply could not at the end find her guilty. >> all right. right now, let's bring in the attorney for casey's parents, cindy and george anthony. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> i understand you would like -- your clients, george and cindy, would like to have mr. baez, their daughter's attorney, disbarred, kicked out of the legal profession for

we know it's happening in pinellas county. and we know it's not only the civil rights of the people that are coming across because they want somewhere to work are being harmed by the heat if nothing else and by the drug cartels and the gun fights on the freeways so -- although we know it's better but we are going to continue as i'm sure -- >> yes, ma'am. >> to get that control. do we see more technical more high-tech control coming to our border? we need help. >> yes. >> we need assistance and people can say it's better and the figures and the data all sounds wonderful but those of us who are living there, those of us who see on a daily basis what's taking place, we need more help. we need more people. we need more troops. we need our borders secured. >> absolutely. and that's what we're working towards, governor, very, very hard every day. a couple of things that i didn't cover that i think are important to cover because of the question that you pose. u.s. customs border protections have the largest civilian law enforcement e