Tonight I watched Nancy Grace of CNN go totally berserk regarding the judge who gave up trying to find a jury in the Couey trial. As usual, she looked like she was wetting her pants while shrieking that the judge should have tried harder. Meanwhile, as if to prove the point that the news media make it difficult to find juries in well-publicized trials, she played a recording of Couey's confession several times with his words up on the screen in case you couldn't understand his mumbling. The judge has already ruled that the jury will not hear or see the confession, assuming they ever get a jury. At one point she asked someone to imagine what the photos of the body might look like. . .the body of a girl who was buried alive in a plastic bag. I can imagine. I don't want to.
With the massive publicity, all aimed at proving his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt, you have to wonder what kind of people will ever get to sit in the jury box. The dialogue during voir dire will sound like this:
Q: Have you heard about this case?
A: Do I look like a Martian? Of course I have.
Q: Despite hearing his confession repeatedly on CNN, can you keep an open mind and make a decision about his guilt or innocence based solely upon the evidence brought into the courtroom.
A: Well, of course. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
This illustrates one reason why I no longer believe in the death penalty. They will eventually find a jury, which will proceed to find him guilty and recommend death by burial alive in a plastic bag. That, frankly, would be fine by me, but as you can see, I am not qualified to sit in the jury when case against the squirrely bastard finally goes to trial.
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