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After a lengthy process today, of strikes and movements and back and forths and ins and outs and...well, let's just say it was a lot of movement.  Anyway, we have a jury.

I am not comfortable handing out juror numbers, but I will do some thumbnail descriptions.  (From years of dealing with criminal proceedings, I'd prefer to keep descriptions useful but general to be clear on non-identification of the jurors themselves.  Just out of habit.)

From my count (and checkng it against the count of others in the media room), I have the following:

9 Women

3 Men

10 Caucasian

2 African American

(And one of the Caucasian women may or may not be Hispanic -- there's some uncertainty there.)

That's the jury panel itself.  The alternate jurors are summed up as 2 African American women, 1 white woman and one white man.

Not exactly a completely analogous cross-section of DC, but it's the jury nonetheless.

Of the folks in the jury pool (both in the jury and alternates), we have a web architect, an investment banker, a travel agent, a retired math teacher, a consumer protection attorney, someone from HHS, an art curator, the fellow whose former editor was Bob Woodward, someone who works in hotel sales, one person who has formerly served as a jury foreperson in a prior criminal case, someone who does data entry, a retired postal worker, a day care provider, and a juror who formerly worked for the military, then a nonprofit and is now retired. 

All in all, a fair slice of America.  And hopefully, a pool of folks who can listen closely to the evidence, and make decisions and render a verdict based on the law and the facts.  Here are the jurors who will decide the fate of I. Lewis Libby -- may they render a just verdict, in accordance with the law.