The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a bid by the publisher of the Cochise County Record that there is a First Amendment right of the public to know not only who is sitting on a jury but even those being considered to serve.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up an Arizona-based case weighing whether courts can use anonymous juries at their discretion. Innominate juries, or a jury whose members are called by numbers instead of names, are often deployed in high-profile cases to protect jurors from jury tampering, social pressure or the media. But Cochise .