Spade, would you go for a trial by judge (if that's an option in FL) or a jury, assuming no plea bargain is achieved?
I think the jury would be scared as hell to acquit, but a judge might look strictly at facts, not sentiment or be influenced by fear.
Interesting question (to me).
They'll probably be trying to get a jury who doesn't know / hasn't paid attention to the case in the media.
This is the United States. It'd be, sadly, trivially easy to find a dozen people who have never even heard of this case.
