Avi’s Musings

Here in Chicago, for almost a year now, there has been a news story involving an egocentric ex-police officer and the disappearance of his fourth wife.  He now has a trial date for a weapons charge and his attorneys are crying over the prospect of being able to sit a jury of peers who know nothing about the defendant or his situation.  Here’s the thing, this guy and his attorneys paraded him across the media, including nationally aired programs, to tell his side of the story.  So, the question must be asked, shouldn’t the defendant and his attorneys bear a huge amount of the responsibility for tainting the jury pool through their huge appetite for publicity?  After all, it wasn’t necessary to go on national and local television shows and call special news conferences to keep their names in the press.  Perhaps that’s what their intention was all along, create a media circus so if the defendant did go to trial and the outcome wasn’t what he wanted, he could move for a mistrial based on the argument of a tainted jury pool which was created by the defendant’s and his attorneys’ actions.

Avi