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Did you mention your deeply held convictions during any of the phases where they try to gather information on potential jurors? I know that when I've been called to jury duty, I've had to fill out questionaires that ask me specifically about my predispositions.
you must mean voir dire, it is not the courts decision on who serves or not on a jury, just that they get an impartial jury. I was impartial up to the time that they mentioned the charges, and then my mind was made up.
Well, he made a good point IMHO........and he is really hot too!
Wow.......you ain't kidding...........I'll have to keep this in mind because I've got a lot of rage built up and could never be impartial in certain cases.
you must mean voir dire, it is not the courts decision on who serves or not on a jury, just that they get an impartial jury. I was impartial up to the time that they mentioned the charges, and then my mind was made up.
No, I don't just mean the voir dire. When you are in the jury pool, and certain cases are coming up, there are sometimes questionaires sent in advance to prospective jurors, to weed out people who are "impartial up to the time that they mention the charges". Because impartiality is supposed to extend past the time the charges are read, right on through the trial. Jurors aren't supposed to make up their minds before the trial.
"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."
To Kill a Mockingbird
Speech to the jury by Atticus Finch, Chapter 20.
The statement he made tells us, and told the courts involved, that he was someone whose biases made him unsuitable to serve as a juror.
Interesting. You believed it. I saw right through it.
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