"When anonymous jurors begin hearing Barry Bonds’ perjury trial this week, they can credit their privacy partly to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The judge in Bonds’ case in San Francisco, Susan Illston, alluded to the media crush at Blagojevich’s first corruption trial in Chicago in ruling she’d keep jurors’ names secret until after a verdict.
She cited Judge James Zagel’s decision to protect Blagojevich jurors from what he called media “harassment.”
It rekindles a dilemma in high-profile trials: How should judges balance jurors’ right to privacy with the public’s right to know?"
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California Closing Criminal Records
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SB-731 Automatically Sealing of Conviction and Arrest Records A social
justice bill that implements a system to prospectively and retroactively
seal conv...