Coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial has reminded us–yet again–that one of those bastions of our judicial system–the right of a person to be tried by a “jury of one’s peers”–is more rhetoric than reality when taken too literally. The “JOOP” tenet has its roots in the Magna Carta and common law, but its contemporary application is rooted in the vagaries of the American jury system. The right of a person to a jury of availables is a far more accurate, if decidedly less noble, concept.