I Should Say So

Now that the Arias trial is in the fourth month, the D.A. is concerned there wasn't sequestration of the jurors:

"I'm starting to become very concerned that the media circus here is going to create an appellate issue, where they can say at some point because the jury isn't sequestered," he said. "That there's no way that they could have been affected at some point. And that's a big concern that I have. I think if the court had any sense that we would be where we are now, that [sequestration] would have been seriously considered."

Arizona hasn't a sequestered jury in a very long time.

Montgomery believes one of the reasons for that is because it's very hard on the jury members, and it would be difficult for them to concentrate on the trial when you pull them from their everyday lives.

That may be true in the run-of-the-mill murder case, but this one has gone way beyond local interest.

I don't see how Jodi Arias could possibly get a fair trial anywhere in Arizona, and the death threats and career threats against defense witnesses are far, far, far beyond the pale.