Everyone brings prejudices to the table, and while you can change the venue within the state, certainly the juror pool will be filled with potential jurors, who have heard about the case. The aim isn't necessarily to get jurors, who have not heard a lick about the case - frankly someone living in a hole all this time would worry me about serving. But the key is to impanel a jury, capable of putting aside what they have heard through media outlets and render a decision that is limited to evidence presented within a courtroom. Most, when called, take their oaths seriously.

Jury selection will be a painstaking process, and if you assemble 12 free thinking, independent people, a fair and impartial jury can be achieved. The zealots on both sides can be screened.

I don't think the jury selectors will be as concerned about white and black as they will be on male and female.