No, but close. This one was heard in Orange County Superior Court; the Rodney King jury was from LA County, which is next along the coastline from Orange. (The Rodney King trial was actually held just outside LA County, in neighbouring Ventura, I think in the hope of avoiding the sort of riots it ended up causing.)
OC has a reputation for being very conservative by Californian standards, although like most demographic generalisations that's not the full story.
Note that eleven of twelve jurors in this one were male, which may have had something to do with the outcome; similarly, the jury in the King trial was mostly white with no blacks at all.
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Date: 2007-02-13 02:59 am (UTC)OC has a reputation for being very conservative by Californian standards, although like most demographic generalisations that's not the full story.
Note that eleven of twelve jurors in this one were male, which may have had something to do with the outcome; similarly, the jury in the King trial was mostly white with no blacks at all.