One of the legal questions stemming from the Kobe Bryant sex-assault case is whether the African-American NBA All-Star will try to move the trial out of predominantly white Eagle County.

But two top defense attorneys said Wednesday that neither race nor the fact that many potential jurors know the victim would be sufficient grounds for a change of venue.

"When the constitution says you are entitled to a jury of your peers, it doesn't promise a jury that looks or thinks like you. It promises you a fundamentally fair jury," said Denver attorney Larry Pozner, former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "If you are in a community that doesn't have very many blacks in the jury pool, you don't have a complaint."

The 2000 Census counted 31,871 people of voting age in Eagle County. Eighty-five percent are white, and 0.3 percent, or 102, are black.

David Kaplan, the Colorado state public defender, said the law requires an unbiased jury reflective of the community, not the defendant.

But Denver defense attorney Walter Gerash said if he were defending Bryant, he would immediately seek a change of venue based on race.