By 4PM this afternoon, Judge Lamont had seated a jury of 12 plus four alternates for the trial of Dhoruba Shuaib, the teen accused in a single count indictment of the murder of Tyler Rhodes in Hoffman Park last April 30th. Of course, Dhoruba didn’t thrust the knife into the chest of Mr. Rhodes and all parties involved admit that…on the record. The District Attorney’s office is putting Shuaib on trial not for the thrusting but for the assist.
In yesterday’s post, I disqualified myself from being an impartial jurist as I admit that I would have a hard time convicting this kid for murder when it was another who did the killing. Ya see, I think of killing in, let’s see, the biblical sense. I can’t believe that either of the two kids, let alone this one sitting in front of me, intended to go to a park and end a young man’s life no matter what the super secret grudge.
