a meme leads to jury selection
http://scruffey.blogspot.com/2008/03/meme-leads-to-jury-selection.html
I read that you are supposed to win the case during voir dire by getting the jury talking to you and revealing their innermost feelings and prejudices. I hear talk of two-day jury selections in DUI cases. I hear lectures at CLE seminars about how the jury should do almost all of the talking – that the attorney should not do much more than say “Good Morning†and explain what the case is about before letting the jury open up a free-form discussion. I have heard rumors of questions that can be asked that will lead to discussions that tell the defense attorney who to strike, but doesn’t give the prosecutor any useful information.
I have watched most of the criminal defense attorneys in this circuit pick a jury, and I have never seen any of that stuff happen. Everyone asks the same questions to the same sea of blank faces and gets the same non-verbal responses. I wish I had the time to go up to Big City and spend a few days watching the big-name private attorneys with ponytails pick juries. Maybe they know the way to get the jurors talking, because I sure don’t.
