As I posted on another posting - How can the State of Florida or even the Federal Government empanel a jury, with alternates, that haven’t pre-judged this case?
IMHO the LMSM have polluted any possible jury pool with their over the top reporting and malicious alternations.
This claim has been repeatedly used by defense attorneys in cases with a much lower profile (no wanted posters and high value rewards) so why not here?
A change of venue (getting a jury from outside the area, or holding the trial elsewhere entirely) is probably necessary unless the defendant believes he's likely to get a mistrial or acquittal caused by a local jury familiar with the general situation in the community, even if not this particular case. That's why OJ Simpson wanted to have his criminal trial with an inner-city predominantly black jury, and in a nation where we believe in presumption of innocence until proved guilty, we need to accept the importance of prosecutors and police needing to have a very high standard to prove their case to a jury of the defendant's peers.
Once a change of venue happens, finding a panel of 12 jurors with additional alternates who are mostly or entirely uninformed about the case is not usually that difficult, even high-profile cases.
Uninformed does not mean unintelligent. As Freepers, we're considerably more politically active and therefore more informed than many people choose to be, and the same could be said for regular readers of Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and Democratic Underground on the other side of the political spectrum. Lots of people simply do not follow the news on a regular basis if they don't see how it affects them, and that's why getting a jury from outside the area is often either necessary or helpful.
If we asked 500 people we know to give details of this case, we might be surprised how easy it is to find 12 jurors out of that 500-person group who haven't gotten enough prior information about this case to taint their ability to hear it as an unbiased juror.