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The rules of grand juries are far different from those governing petit juries — the ones that determine guilt or innocence.

“Without any evidence — without any factual foundation whatsoever — defendants have chosen to malign one of this country’s most sacred civic institutions, the impartially selected petit jury,” she said.

The jurors - seven men, five women; nine whites, three blacks - were chosen from the circuit court petit jury pool in May.

The judge will ask very few questions, unlike when selecting a petit jury, when the judge and lawyers ask many questions. 

Most people can understand the basic adversarial nature of a public trial decided by what is formally called a petit jury.