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Because of race. the defense denied that and maintained this was about their already formed opinions about ahmaud arbery and their concerns they would not be able to remain impartial during the trial. look, at the end of the day, victor and alisysin, the jury w white. three were accused of gunning down a black man in a neighborhood when he was shot and killed by a shotgun. there has been a lot of criticism regarding this jury selection and that the jury should reflect the community, right? if you just look at these numbers, 26% of glen county while you compare 80% of this jury being black. a m...

Strikes, exercised by the defense. but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to reseat. >> reporter: so essentially what you hear there is that the judge says, yeah, he agreed with the state but he also said because of the laws in the state of georgia there wasn't much he could do about it and the jury was going to stand. i want to show you the breakdown, when it comes to glen county and brunswick, and the racial makeup and how out of sort of order that is with the makeup racially of this jury. again, 11 whites and 1 african-american. and the last thing i'll point out to you, jim,...

Keep the trial in glen county. should there be a consideration of moving it? >> we're probably too far down the road for that, but should they have taken that into account? >> i think it was and something most defendants ask for in a case of any notoriety, but a community has an interest and a right to have the disputes and the criminal actions resolved in that area. that gives the people who live there the confidence in the system, it gives witnesses the convenience, the prosecution the convenience. if we were just going to move things to a neutral place we would put our prosecutors on some i...

Officer 30 years within the law enforcement community in glenn county. will you have friends in law enforcement that will testify on his behalf so the defense counsel is saying if black people or any sid if glen county acknowledges that the wide dispar rights between treatment of black folks and white folks, then they will be disqualified, the point is to identify them as anti-cops somehow, therefore, no good for the jury. i don't think it's a fair question, because as you pointed out, people will just have to acknowledge police in america. >> yeah. sadly, we are in a country right now where t...

Johnson, the prosecutor responsible for doing justice in the states initially. they voted to elect her out, despite the demographic population there i'm sorry, they voted her out of office. so that's one sign, but it's going to be difficult in a place like glen county to find a group of jurors who haven't already developed an opinion about the case. that's the real concern. >> i think when i was reading the reporting on this, it made me wonder how our jury is selected generally, a lot is from the voter rolls. >> if you are not a registered voter, you will not get called to vote. people are apa...