[Jury selection] is best based upon seat-of-the-pants instincts, which are undoubtedly crudely stereotypical and may in many cases be hopelessly mistaken.
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Somewhere 'out there,' beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
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