Not exact matches
During the voir dire process the
potential jurors come in and they're
asked a series
of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each
potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.
During jury selection, Judge Vincent Briccetti
asked potential jurors whether they heard
of any other state political corruption cases.
Prospective
jurors in the upcoming federal criminal trial
of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Cuomo, are being
asked to note any
potential conflicts with dozens
of individuals whose names or testimony may be part
of corruption case.
Potential jurors in the federal bribery trial
of Queens state Sen. Malcolm Smith were
asked Monday if they recognized any names on a list
of possible witnesses or people who would be mentioned during the trial — and nearly all
of the 48 in the White Plains court said they knew only
of Bloomberg.
This is the process
of picking a jury by
asking questions
of potential jurors.
These two recent examples
of blogging
jurors demonstrate that there is no longer any question
of the need for lawyers to
ask potential jurors if they are writing online, says another jury consultant, Anne Reed, writing at her blog Deliberations.
In Virginia, the opposing lawyers are permitted to
ask direct questions to
potential jurors before exercising their handful or two
of peremptory jury strikes.
During voir dire for a DUI case, Seidler
asked potential jurors questions such as whether they liked animals, whether they could «envision the coffee table in front
of them» or describe a house that they might see if, hypothetically, they were in a forest and came to a clearing.
She adds that Canada, unlike the United States, does not
ask extensive and intrusive questions
of its
potential jurors.
The process begins by the judge
asking certain basic questions to make sure that all
of the
potential jurors meet the minimum qualifications to be a
juror.
peremptory challenge: When a side in a case
asks the court to get rid
of a
potential juror.
HELD Mr Justice Nelson ruled (at paras 35 and 36) that the police officer
juror should have been
asked to stand down at the outset, as should normally occur where any
potential juror knows witnesses who are to be called to give oral evidence, unless it can be said with certainty that the evidence
of the witnesses who are known will play no contested part in the determination
of the matter.