{"id":2724,"date":"2014-01-01T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2013-12-30T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T13:58:09","slug":"jury-selections-twists-turns-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-selections-twists-turns-attitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Selection\u2019s Twists, Turns and Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jurors are pulled into courthouses bringing with each their unmovable principles, attitudes and beliefs.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The goal of jury selection is the questioning allowed by the judge, in choosing the fairest possible jury. Given the fact that many prospective jurors do not want to be involved in the process at all, lawyers who handle injury or death cases need to be aware that they have to overcome a prospective juror\u2019s hostility to lawsuits generally, perhaps because of the rise in negative publicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Generally, lawyers are thrust into meeting prospective jurors with little or no opportunity for preparation for the venire or the group brought in.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Depending on the venue, a lawyer should take whatever opportunities are given to increase the odds of de-selecting and empaneling the best possible and fairest jury.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It is important to know in advance the law of the venue and the process for jury selection in a particular courtroom.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s advisable to file a trial brief on the law in advance of every case to ensure that the lawyer is familiar with the local law and the court\u2019s process.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Judges differ in style from court to court.<span>\u00a0<\/span>If a lawyer is familiar with the judge, that is an advantage in understanding the judge\u2019s process for questioning motions to strike a juror with or without cause and paneling the jurors.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-selections-twists-turns-attitudes\/#more-2724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors are pulled into courthouses bringing with each their unmovable principles, attitudes and beliefs.\u00a0The goal of jury selection is the questioning allowed by the judge, in choosing the fairest possible jury. Given the fact that many prospective jurors do not want to be involved in the process at all, lawyers who handle injury or death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jury Selection\u2019s Twists, Turns and Attitudes &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jurors are pulled into courthouses bringing with each their unmovable principles, attitudes and beliefs.\u00a0The goal of jury selection is the questioning\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-selections-twists-turns-attitudes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Jury Selection\u2019s Twists, Turns and Attitudes &#8212; 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