My mistake. I thought from your posts you did.
I think Durham is the worst place in the state for the trial. Think about it yourself for a while and see if you don't agree. Ask yourself "is the jury pool going to be better or worse in other similarly sized or larger cities in the state?"
I think this jurisdiction will have a lot of blacks in the jury pool, a disproportionate number, and some will likely be trying to get on the jury stealth. They'll know to show no flags. Even the Dukies who are in the pool may have their own grudges with the athletes. Imagine the liberals arts department, the profs, the TAs, the grads.
This is strictly a personal opinion, but I'd sure want the case out of this jurisdiction, where you never know the politics. Get it somewhere that Nifong is powerless.
If Gil Garcetti wasn't such a coward, he wouldn't have moved that trial to downtown L.A.. He would have left it in Brentwood. Garcetti alone is responsible for OJ walking. he was never going to get a conviction with that jury pool, period. Garcetti ran up a white flag at the outset, and his unwillingness to seek the death penalty just made it worse. He must have thought he had a better chance of getting a guilty verdict without the DP, but that was a sucker's bet - the suggestion of a silent bargain. He lost that case before the first day of trial.