SEPTEMBER 28 "FILE FOR A MIS-TRIAL!"
In jury selection, The key in voir dire is to identify extremists and understand what it will take to satisfy those who are left and to make sure that you are left with jurors that will be fair and impartial and unbiased towards your client.
A surgeon sits at the defense table on the first day of her malpractice trial. Looking at a jury that includes a retired data entry clerk, a bus driver, a construction worker, college student, a housewife, a mother who lost a son in a previous malpractice suit, a motorcycle mechanic and an accountant – but no doctors, no nurses, nobody in the medical profession – she whispers to her attorney,
“This is not a jury of my peers!”
Jury selection certainly can have dire consequences. A case can be won or lost in voir dire. All you need is one or two strident enemy jurors sitting in that jury, to pull you down.
If you can prove you had an enemy in the jury, you are almost guaranteed to have a mis-trial.
Imagine if you were in court for a sin you committed; And you looked over at the jury and sitting in the jury box was all your enemies, I think we would protest.
The jury selection in the U.S. is very careful to make sure that nobody in that jury box is biased towards you. The justice system, in America, which comes from God, demands that we judge impartially, fairly and without bias. Imagine if every time we sinned, we looked over and the devil was sitting there waiving at us, sitting in the jury box, would be file for a mis-trial?
What if your Christian brother or sister was in court for their sin and looked over at the jury box and saw you sitting in there, would they file for a mis-trial or would they have confidence that they would get a fair trial?
A surgeon sits at the defense table on the first day of her malpractice trial. Looking at a jury that includes a retired data entry clerk, a bus driver, a construction worker, college student, a housewife, a mother who lost a son in a previous malpractice suit, a motorcycle mechanic and an accountant – but no doctors, no nurses, nobody in the medical profession – she whispers to her attorney,
“This is not a jury of my peers!”
Jury selection certainly can have dire consequences. A case can be won or lost in voir dire. All you need is one or two strident enemy jurors sitting in that jury, to pull you down.
If you can prove you had an enemy in the jury, you are almost guaranteed to have a mis-trial.
Imagine if you were in court for a sin you committed; And you looked over at the jury and sitting in the jury box was all your enemies, I think we would protest.
The jury selection in the U.S. is very careful to make sure that nobody in that jury box is biased towards you. The justice system, in America, which comes from God, demands that we judge impartially, fairly and without bias. Imagine if every time we sinned, we looked over and the devil was sitting there waiving at us, sitting in the jury box, would be file for a mis-trial?
What if your Christian brother or sister was in court for their sin and looked over at the jury box and saw you sitting in there, would they file for a mis-trial or would they have confidence that they would get a fair trial?
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