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I don't recall seeing "in the area in which they live" in the law anywhere. Jury of peers, yes, of course.

One thing I KNOW, though: a defendant may win a change of venue due to publicity, but he does NOT have a right to choose WHICH alternate venue the trial is moved to. This bit about asking for L.A. is ridiculous.

It's as if a person called his wife, and when she said, "What do you want?" instead of saying why he called her, he said, "Well, I want all the money in the world, I want to live forever, I want you to be the most beautiful woman in the world..." I mean, he can SAY it, but he ain't gonna get it! LOL!

Geragos literally doesn't have a leg to stand on, in trying to dictate to the court that the trial be moved to L.A., just b/c HE likes L.A. better.

I agree that Geragos's demand to move the trial to LA is completely transparent to anyone with an IQ above room temperature. In the Jury comment, what I meant to say, was "the peers should be chosen from the area where the crime was committed". I heard a Lawyer on one of the talk shows recently cite that.