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What is the process of picking prospective jurors?
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What do attorney do during jury selection?
Attorneys will ask prospective jurors various questions to determine if they will be a good fit for the jury. Prospective jurors can be dismissed if the attorney feels they are biased.
What is a group of prospective jurors called?
A group of prospective jurors is known as a venire. Members of the venire is initially selected from the community using a random method.
A jury panel is the room where prospective jurors wait during pretrial hearings?
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Does a defendant and his attorney choose the jury?
Both parties choose the jury. In many cases prospective jurors will be asked to answer a series of questions. Both sides can then interview jurors and each gets to reject or accept them.
What do attorneys do during jury selection?
By law, you and the states attorneys office have to agree on the fact that you and them agree that the citizens before you are impartial and interrested in only the facts of law to bring about a truthful and just finding at the end of your trial.
What does a prospective candidate mean?
Prospective candidate
What is the maximum age of a juror?
There is no "maximum" age for a juror. It is against Federal Law to discriminate based solely upon age. The competence/fitness of jurors is detemined during "voire dire" when prospective jurors are questioned by the opposing attorneys before being empaneled.
In a criminal case which side questions jurors first?
If you are referring to the jury selection process - the defense gets to question the prospective jurors first - not that it makes much difference because the challenges aren't presented to the judge until after both sides questioned have them all.
Can a person in NY State serve on a jury if that person is on parole for a DWI?
There are no disqualifications to service, but the attornies will usually discover and learn of any potential jurors with pending legal problems during the "voire dire" process, in which prospective jurors are questioned prior to their actual selection to be seated on a jury.
What does 'a list of prospects' mean?
I believe its short for - a list of prospective whatever, as in prospective buyers.
How do you spell prospective?
The correct spelling is prospective, as in: The prospective candidate had a strong math education. Or if you mean perspective, as in: My perspective of Mrs. Wood differed from my friend's perspective of our teacher.
