This is the process of picking a jury by asking
questions of potential jurors.
She adds that Canada, unlike the United States, does not ask extensive and intrusive
questions of its potential jurors.
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 the jury selection process, the judge and attorneys will
question the pool
of potential jurors regarding pertinent matters
of the case.
If the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case influences the dominant narrative that pops into our minds when we address the kinds
of questions Prof. Thompson poses, then it may pervert our perspective as a society
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.
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.
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.
Some
jurors find it odd, even insulting, that before the trial begins, attorneys from both sides will
question potential jurors about a wide range
of topics to find
jurors who likely will be impartial.
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.