With the Oklahoma City bombing trial about to begin, many observers are questioning whether defendant Timothy McVeigh—the subject of intense media scrutiny for nearly two years—can get a fair trial before an unbiased jury. What do you think?

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  What's so hard about giving him a fair trial? If he floats, he's a witch. Case closed.

  Mitchell Dyer
  Systems Analyst

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  I think the biggest threat to McVeigh's getting a fair trial is the fact that he blew up that federal building in Oklahoma City.

  Ron Young
  Pianist

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  It's the trial of the century! Or, at least, this year's trial of the century. Okay, this year's second trial of the century.

  Ken Francona
  Caterer

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  America should have a permanent supply of 12 people encased in lucite for just such occasions.

  Ellen Sakata
  Podiatrist

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  Even if he did set off that bomb, who's to say those people wouldn't have blown up anyway?

  Harriet Mortimer
  Student

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  Maybe he can plea-bargain down to 16,000 counts of littering and mishandling biological waste.

  Arlo Unger
  Legal Secretary