And had the media corralled in a corner where they needed to be escorted to and from like children.

Well the good news is Marky Mark isn’t in this. It takes place when John was a kid, or at least a teenager.

I’m not making excuses for myself. Did you think you were responding to the OP?

And if one can get out of jury duty for financial hardship then we really don’t have trial by a jury of your peers, we have trial by a jury of the wealthy.

You really think a jury full of people worried about paying their bills because they are missing work to be on the jury doesn’t hurt the accused?

You can’t have a sound and rational jury while forcing those serving on the jury to go days without their normal wages. They will do everything they can to reach a conclusion ASAP.

I think turn out would be better if PA had open primaries.