He noted that a state court jury recently asked to decide ownership of the land where the standoff occurred refused to award title to the surviving Branch Davidians and their church. The property, rightly or wrongly, belongs to the Davidian church. The only thing that you can analyze out of that was that the jurors were anti-anything that seems to be in favor of Branch Davidians because of the ridicule that the Davidian incident has brought upon the whole community and the city. If it had not been for the fact of the weapons on the compound, I think the government should have left him alone. But others do.
Curiosity continues to bring visitors to where the compound once stood.
Walter Dulock lives across the road from a memorial honoring the four U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents who also died at the compound in the battle with sect members that started the standoff. He often directs travelers to the site. The jury, consisting of four women and two men, plus one alternate, will hear the case and advise Federal Judge Walter Smith on his ruling. The judge ordered that the names of the jurors in the high profile case be kept confidential and set opening statements in the case for Tuesday. The jurors were picked from a pool of 60 and include a social worker, a homemaker and an elementary school teacher.