My thinking on the CourtHouse Crowd is that like any bureaucratic organization, very little can be kept secret. Maybe a lot of them weren't in on it, but I'll wager most of the Crowd knows about it...
CourtTV will be covering the hearing today:
http://boards.courttv.com/showthread.php?s=7e536aef5fc28bf7a80c0726ff2543b7&threadid=269819
That I agree with - they know about it or it's rumored.