Ex-Girlfriend: Cat Killer is Violent

As for holdout juror Francisco DeFlaviis, he asked reporters to respect his privacy.

Should have thought of that before you screwed up a high-profile trial with your irrational stubbornness. Maybe the reporters will and maybe they won't, but I can pretty much guarantee you bloggers and the like won't. This is the age of the Internet and the traditional news media is hardly the only or even primary source for information and there'll be nothing you can do about it. Anything about DeFlaviis will probably be splashed all over the Web as soon as it's known, and with a distinctive name like that, it's a cinch something will get out. Hope you haven't made any other enemies in the past, Francisco.

Does this story really merit daily updates? Once or twice was enough, give it a rest.

Hello - Thanks to Gothamist for reporting on this story. I've been following this trial from the beginning, and can't get the details of Norman's senseless, brutal death out of my mind. From reading comments on blogs and sites like this one, I'm struck by how many other people feel the same way. Why not harness all that outrage to try to accomplish something positive, in Norman's memory? Imagine if everyone who felt outrage over this terrible case were to donate $9 in Norman's memory to their local SPCA or animal shelter..... "Nine for Norman!" It would add up pretty quickly! ... Let's not just talk about this case... let's make "Nine for Norman" a grassroots effort. www.ninefornorman.com

I am not too terribly interested in this case, what i am more interested in is the public response...to see what kind of comments are showing up here is disturbing.

It seems that all of you would agree that if anything about this is offensive to anyone, then they should not read the comments nor contribute to the conversation. that is nonsense.

I am afraid that you all need to be told that you are going way overboard at this point. Before you proceed in stalking and harassing the hold out juror, please take a second to step back and breath deeply; your emotions are getting the best of you.

Those of you who would condone any aggressive actions against this man are seriously misplacing your anger. Get a grip...if it bothers you so much, then sure, go volunteer at your local animal shelter, or collect donations, or answer your jury duty summons, or start a blog...but do not form an angry vindictive mob and violate the rights of a citizen who has done nothing wrong. He did not kick the cat and you were not in that court room to see what actually happened.

Oh yes, talk of harassing a juror and his family over a freaking cat are entirely justified.

Zero comments so far in the Chinese-food delivery guy story.

Great perspective guys.

[12] Zero comments? Maybe because it was a fresh post at the time. There's a lot more than zero now. So how's your perspective?

[10] We may not have been in the courtroom (or rather the jury room), but eleven other jurors were, and they all gave the same story, that this creep decided he was far smarter than everybody else and screwed up the trial. Remember, De Flaviis told the judge he couldn't be impartial then told the judge he could. Should have kicked his butt off the jury and used an alternate. We've seen this story before, about jurors who refused to listen to testimony, who refused to debate but rather just sat there so smugly sure that only he knew the truth.