11-24-2009, 09:10 AM
OP, I'm not sure if you're aware of it or not, but the defendants and the prosecution have a hand in picking the jury. So it is very feasible that they can find a sympathetic one or two. It's also not entirely out of the question that someone can come in with an agenda to set this guy free, cause a retrial etc by posing as someone who is fair minded and throw a monkey-wrench into the whole thing when it comes time to deliberate. That's a slim possibility but a possibility none the less.