The phrase
"potential jurors" refers to individuals who are being considered or evaluated to serve on a jury during a trial.
Full definition
Quite a lot of information that may be useful, say, if you were to be on my list
of potential jurors for a major case.
Getting real feedback from real
potential jurors in your venue has never been easier or more cost - effective.
A web page is worth a thousand words, especially if you're looking for information
about potential jurors who will decide the fate of your case.
And even
where potential jurors are unemployed, they're still worried that jury duty could interfere with their job search.
During the jury selection process, the judge and attorneys will question the pool of
potential jurors regarding pertinent matters of the case.
In the meantime, you can use these ideas when questioning a witness, preparing your own witness to give testimony, and
selecting potential jurors.
Using scientific data, questions were designed to examine whether or
not potential jurors had a bias.
Some highlights: - Lawyers learn to nod to
keep potential jurors talking so that they will disclose more information than required.
The prosecutors and defense lawyers
vet potential jurors, and they probably check the social media accounts of each and every one.
Headline of the week: Punk Rock Drummer - Turned - Doctor Performs CPR
on Potential Juror in His Med - Mal Trial.
During jury selection, Judge Vincent Briccetti asked
potential jurors whether they heard of any other state political corruption cases.
Voir dire is the process during which lawyers
question potential jurors in order to determine their ability to be objective members of a jury during a criminal or civil trial.
On the day of a trial the court brings in a large number of
potential jurors who have been selected from the voting rolls or driver's license information or some other similar government list.
FIJA, headquartered in Montana since its founding 20 years ago, conducted an intense educational campaign in Missoula during the past several years,
informing potential jurors of their authority as the final veto against bad government laws.
The suggestion is to take away advocates» ability to exercise «peremptory strikes» (i.e., the ability to reject a fixed number of
potential jurors without stating any reason).
Several months ago, Weinstein had asked the court to pay for a jury consultant to help in phrasing questions
for potential jurors.
The panel was picked following a day of questioning that saw
several potential jurors booted for voicing strong feelings about lawmakers and office - seekers.
During jury selection, one
potential juror told the court that she had donated to a campaign by Liu.
We'll have a lot more videos to feature on our blog Freedom Fridays and elsewhere on our website to
educate potential jurors about how they can use the opportunity of jury service to protect all of our rights from abuse at the hands of government.
to
exclude potential jurors who drive and pay for automobile insurance premiums (or have automobile insurance premiums paid on their behalf);
United States v. Newman, 549 F. 2d 240 (CA2 1977), the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to
challenge potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.
The questionnaire also asks
potential jurors if they have any connections to business developments such as the Central New York Film Hub, the Aloft hotel, or to state agencies such as ESD or the Dormitory Authority.
Hundreds of
potential jurors came to the courthouse Wednesday to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward selection of a jury for a trial set to start March 12.
Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about
potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»
During questioning about juror exposure to the literature, only one
potential juror said that he was approached but that he declined to accept the information.
After lawyers on both sides requested a two - day delay to review the two - page jury survey, the tech - savvy judge realized that they planned to scrub the internet to extract personal data on
potential jurors during jury selection.
In Virginia, the opposing lawyers are permitted to ask direct questions to
potential jurors before exercising their handful or two of peremptory jury strikes.
If the defendant in a criminal case can prove the prosecutor has used peremptory strikes to
eliminate potential jurors based on race, ethnicity, or gender, he may be entitled to a new trial.
A judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, denied a request to allow research of
potential jurors because it could have a chilling effect on jury service if they knew they were going to be Googled as soon as they walked into the courthouse.
In every jury trial, both the Crown prosecutor and the defence can automatically reject a set number of
potential jurors through what are known as peremptory challenges.
Although a prosecutor ordinarily is entitled to exercise [p80] peremptory challenges for any reason, as long as that reason is related to his view concerning the outcome of the case to be tried, the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge
potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant.
«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted
by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.
Earlier this month in San Francisco, the Superior Court issued a proposed rule that would
require potential jurors be given a reminder not to blog, tweet or conduct Internet research about cases.
They travel from across the country to exploit a weak venue law as their lawyers spend heavily on television advertising that works to
prejudice potential jurors against defendants.
Many jury summonses
allow potential jurors to exclude themselves if they have transportation challenges, or if they would suffer a financial hardship if required to serve (few employers in lower - income communities will pay an employee who doesn't show up for work due to jury duty), or if they are physically disabled.
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that in criminal cases, prosecutors can not use peremptory strikes to eliminate
potential jurors based on the juror's race, ethnicity, or gender.
Following Stanley's acquittal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, «as a country we can and must do better,» and justice minister Jody Wilson - Raybould said the government is looking at peremptory challenges, which are used by the defence and prosecution to
reject potential jurors without stating a reason.