Durham is a county that is 40% African-American, 40% white mostly associated with Duke and 20% other many associated with Duke. When it is moved to another county, even one with a similar racial split, lets say 45-45-10 or 47.5-47.5-5, half the pool will no longer have a huge percentage that starts off biased against the defendents. That is a vastly better jury pool.
Can we dare to hope and pray it never reaches a jury?