Window on the jury pool

The jurors on the Scooter Libby trial were mostly white and highly educated, a far cry from the uneducated and unsophisticated people tort reformers seem to believe populate most jury pools. But maybe the Libby trial was an anomaly? Take a look at last week's Washington City Paper for a great look at the efforts of prosecutors to try to pick a jury on a federal capital murder case in a city that overwhelming rejected capital punishment in a ballot referendum years ago. The answers to some of the jury questionnaires are quite something, as are the responses from those who were chosen to serve. (It seems that outpatients from St. Elizabeths hospital are disproportionately civic-minded compared with their non-mentally ill counterparts in the city...)