Word: lungren
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Such tales are the daily stuff of talk shows, of course, leading some prosecutors to blame Oprah and company for making jurors more sympathetic to novel defense strategies that try to excuse the accused's behavior. "I call it the Oprahization of the jury pool," says Dan Lungren, attorney general of California. "It's the idea that people have become so set on viewing things from the Oprah view, the Geraldo view or the Phil Donahue view that they bring that into the jury box with them. And I think at base much of that tends...