The bottom line is you want to try to ensure a fair trial by an impartial jury. Any time the public is exposed to a prior criminal record, as they have in this case, you have to worry about that.
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I think prospective jurors and their families take that obligation very seriously, ... But that doesn't prevent some friend from telling them what they saw. It seeps through no matter what you do.
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