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Entirely inappropriate because the juror is the worst judge of his or her own biases when there has been incendiary coverage and explosive rea action in the community, and that is what happened in this case, and it is ridiculous, and unfair. to say this is a fair and impartial jury, it is fantasyland. >> and those peremptory strikes are strikes that you can do as an attorney on both sides, and you don't have to give anybody a reason for it. in this particular process, paul, the defense struck four black jurors and the prosecution struck three white jurors and one black juror. i have seen this ...

And you can take a juror who says they don't think that they can be a juror and you can rehabilitate them in a matter of minutes, and a judge can and they are potentially on the jury. >> and weigh in and give me your gut feeling that you read guts like crazy as an attorney, and you have been a prosecutor and defense attorney, and did you see people satisfied in that courtroom on both sides of that isle? >> here's the deal. these people in jury selection, and everybody want ts to be offf the jury, but when we pick the juries, people come up with the most outlandish reasons to get out of it and ...

Somebody off for any reason, but not based on the race, religion and there are a number of other categories. >> gender. >> depending upon the state that you are in, and then the attorney has to step forward i did not knock him off because he is african-american, but because -- >> if asked. >> because he expressed an opinion that seemed hostile to my client or me, and then the judge says, that is not racial strike. and so this is a diverse jury in that aspect of the jury selection, it won't be a problem, but i happy to agree with josh with this trend by judges just to force the cases to go forw...

In prison if convicted and the opening statements could begin at any time. and jean casarez is outside of the courthouse right now, and with cnn contributor and attorney alfred vertini and also our cnn analysts paul callan and josh. we thought that we would have a jury now, but we thought that it would take weeks. >> yes, and the jury is 2/3 african-american and 1/3 white. and four af -- three african-american and one white men, and five african-american and three white women. and when jurors were asked have you been a victim of a crime?