From The Denver Post:  A demand that potential jurors in the Aurora movie theater murder trial be questioned beyond public view shows a dismaying lack of confidence in jurors’ honesty and integrity.

The request by James Holmes — joined in part by prosecutors — suggests a basic distrust of the jury selection process and is an effort to wrap yet another part of the judicial process in secrecy.

Arapahoe County district judge Carlos Samour Jr. should reject this request.

The trial of Holmes, accused of killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others, is going to be a high-profile affair. People are interested in seeing justice delivered and perhaps coming to some understanding of why such a tragedy took place.

But that’s not so different from the dynamic at work at trials of other heinous crimes, including those in small towns that are covered minutely by the local press. In such circumstances, public access is the norm and yet justice manages to prevail.

While the lawyers trying this case may not be accustomed to such a big stage, that doesn’t mean their insecurities or distrust of the process ought to outweigh the very real right of the public to watch justice in action.

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