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The Kelly Soo Park Trial - Day Two, Tuesday
By Lonce LaMon - May 14, 2013


Judge Kathleen Kennedy opened court with her robe open
in front in her usual casual style with a green dress underneath wearing a red beaded necklace.  Her red lipstick appeared bright on her thin lips.  Her bangs appeared to have been trimmed up a bit as her hair curved under just below her chin.
 
Some other cases began to be heard.   During this time, the murder-victim Juliana Redding’s parents, Patricia and Greg Redding, walked in.  There was a young man with them who could not be mistaken as anyone other than their son, as he looked exactly like a younger and skinnier version of Greg Redding.  He had that dark, almost black hair just like Greg.  Three other mature ladies—two blondes and a red head—were also with them.

They took up the first row, then the bailiff moved them to the second row, then they were transferred to the back near the door in the chairs. 

Patricia Redding is a wholesome looking woman, quite stylish, and attractive.  Her sandy blonde hair was pulled back beautifully in a unique variation of a French twist.  She wore a black suit jacket which zippered up the front with a black and white tweed skirt.
 
The whole day was dedicated to jury selection. A motley potpourri of every form of humanity crowded the hallway outside courtroom Department 109. The department just across the hall was doing jury selection too, so there were men and women, Blacks and Whites, Hispanics, Chinese, Indians… young and old… so many nationalities and races; and there were well dressed individuals in business attire and sexy threads, while there were also multitudes of persons dressed in jeans, t-shirts, and even less than casually clad. I even saw someone in shoes that looked more like bedroom slippers. There were definitely some funky looking people. This was not a coterie of Beverly Hills beautiful people ready to walk down the carpet at the Academy Awards ceremony.
 

The Reddings stroll through the Farmer's Market on First Street just south of the Los Angeles Clara Shortridge Foltz criminal courthouse during the lunch hour of Tuesday's trial proceedings.   Patricia Redding, victim Juliana's mother, is at the left forefront, while her husband and Juliana's father, Greg Redding, is on the far right.  Their son is back center in the white shirt. 
Copyright © Lonce LaMon; all rights reserved.  
  
Kelly Soo Park, the defendant, had the same bags under her eyes that she’s had for the past year; and she looked sad.  That condition comes from too much weeping, and those bags can be removed with cosmetic surgery.  I had it done.  The fat layer that grows as we age becomes filled with water if we continue to weep.   Grief takes its toll.

Kelly Soo’s husband, Tom Chronister, wore a red golf shirt and a green-toned sport coat with a different shade of green pants that clashed with each other while they also clashed with the red shirt.  He definitely didn’t have it together when he dressed himself this morning.
 
Tom sat by himself against the wall stuffed in the corner in a row with all the media professionals—including this writer.  He seemed nice—not at all like a bad person.   I almost felt an envy for his seemingly-blind devotion to his wife.  He clearly loves her.   Kelly Soo turned around to look at Tom a few times as jury selection was winding down, and her look of longing was all-too-human.
 

Kelly Soo Park (center with long dark hair) does lunch in the Clara Shortridge Foltz criminal courthouse cafeteria with her husband Tom Chronister (red shirt), her lawyer George Buehler (to her left) and her jury advisor expert Lee Meihls (the blonde in the center) on Tuesday, May 14th 2013.  Copyright © Lonce LaMon; all rights reserved. 
 
It said a lot about Los Angeles to me that five or six people during the whole day of jury selection didn’t have enough of a command of English to qualify for the jury.   They couldn’t understand what was going on.  One woman had been in the U.S. for 26 years and barely understood English.  She was Mexican and a professional cleaning lady.   Another woman was Chinese and she couldn’t understand the proceedings either.  Judge Kathleen Kennedy questioned these women very politely and respectfully, but it became very clear to her and the lawyers that they needed to be dismissed.
 
Los Angeles has so many sub-cultures that it’s easily possible for one to live for 26 years in one’s subculture of Los Angeles’s version of Korea, China, Japan, Mexico, or wherever and never have to know English.  This is pretty interesting.  And I saw it starkly in this jury selection.   Outside in the hallway, a man told me he was waiting for his wife and he so hoped she would not be chosen for the jury because he knew her English was not good enough and that she would never have a clue what was going on.
 

Patricia and Gregory Redding walk with their arms around eachother along with their son down North Broadway on their way to the Tuesday Farmers' Market south of the L.A. courthouse.  They are a loving family that was shattered by the murder of their daughter and sister, Juliana Redding, an aspiring actress, on March 15th 2008 in Santa Monica, California.  Greg Redding placed his hand on the back of his son's neck in a gesture of emotional support at the end of jury selection today.  Copyright © Lonce LaMon; all rights reserved. 
 
The questions from Judge Kennedy, defense attorney George Buehler, prosecutor Stacey Okun-Wiese were variations of the following: 
 
  • Do you agree with me that sympathy would not be the right reason to decide on this case? 
  • So do you keep an open mind? 
  • Do you watch any of the crime shows that we talked about? 
  • How do you feel about viewing graphic photographs?  
  • Are you prepared to follow my instructions when it comes to the law? 
  • Do you understand the difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence?  
  • How do you feel about deliberating with these other ladies and gentlemen when the time comes? 
  • Have you heard anything about this case?  
  • The defendant is presumed innocent, do you feel that’s fair? 
  • Have you or anyone you know been a victim of a violent crime?
  • Do you have any issue with the defendant being a female?
What both attorneys also constantly asked the potential jurors was if they had any children; and if they did, how many; and if they had one or more, were they girls or boys?
 

George Buehler, above, together with his jury expert, Lee Meihls, dismissed from the jury a retired army veteran whose wife was a CEO and President of a bank.  What was their thinking on that one?  Copyright © Lonce LaMon; all rights reserved. 
 
How could having children and the combination of boys or girls if they did have children have any bearing on their wherewithal to act as jurors?

Perhaps it didn’t.  Perhaps the question was just an ice breaker.   These were the questions I just couldn’t find any rhyme or reason to…
 
But whatever!  A jury has been formed.   At exactly 4:15 pm, twelve jurors had been decided upon along with four alternates.
 
Now, may the trial begin!
 
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