Sentences with phrase «potential jurors seated»

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After that, the jurors for your case will be called to your court room and the lawyers will have an opportunity to question potential jurors to seat a jury of either 6 or 12 fair and impartial jurors.

Once an entire jury is seated and no party has tried to strike any of the potential jurors for cause or by using a peremptory strike, the jury is generally sworn in and the trial moves on to the next step, often preliminary instructions or opening statements.

Voir dire in those states allows the attorneys on both sides to ensure that jurors with potential bias are not seated in the case.

«It is going to be amazingly difficult to seat a jury in this case because not only do the potential jurors live in central Florida, but we have had an enormous backlash against terrorist acts in the past 17 years since 2001, and this case, like the Boston Marathon case will be felt as an opportunity to right those wrongs,» O'Mara said.