[JLS]

I think Durham is the worst place in the state for the trial.

I agree and think I have said so on prior threads. I just offered that woman and older jurors would not necessarily be bad for the defense. I do agree this is a case that will attrack people wanting on the jury either to hang the bastards or to protect these boys from a lynch mob.

[David Allen]

Old people who will be on the jury are ones who want to, since they can get out. Wealthy people aren't going to do that. Retired pensioners are. And those people could have some deep resentments about young, rich, privileged, white boys from Duke Athletics acting like they own the town.

How many will have known a local girl who fell for one of them and was dumped or worse? Or be kin to one such girl?

The jurors I would want most are the ones least likely to get on the jury. Wealthy, white, male, successful, smart.