Sentences with phrase «potential jurors came»

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.

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.

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The protest came up repeatedly in court Monday, as the judge asked each potential juror whether they had seen the commotion and whether it could affect their judgment.

The comments come as Ontario Superior Court Justice Kelly Gorman raised eyebrows last week when she ordered the sheriff to round up potential jurors off the street.

Evan Brown's Internet Cases blog flagged an interesting case over the weekend coming out of Morris County, N.J. Brown writes that the courthouse in that county provides wireless internet access, and during jury selection, plaintiffs counsel in a medical malpractice case began using his laptop to «Google» potential jurors to gain additional information about them.

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.