| 1. |
Only an undue or extreme hardship will suffice to excuse a juror from service based on hardship. |
True |
False |
| 2. |
Judges are required to consult with the parties’ attorneys prior to excusing jurors for hardship. |
True |
False |
| 3. |
A juror who is not compensated by an employer for jury duty will be automatically excused due to hardship. |
True |
False |
| 4. |
Judges and counsel in both criminal and civil cases have the right to personally question jurors during voir dire. |
True |
False |
| 5. |
So long as the questions asked by the attorneys to jurors are relevant, the judge cannot limit the attorneys’ amount of time during voir dire. |
True |
False |
| 6. |
Although counsel are given wide latitude in the type of voir dire questions they may pose, due to juror privacy they cannot inquire of jurors’ intimately personal traits and experiences. |
True |
False |
| 7. |
Prospective jurors may request to answer any sensitive questions outside the presence of the remaining panel. |
True |
False |
| 8. |
Challenges for cause are distinguished from peremptory challenges because for-cause challenges must be based on specific grounds for being excused. |
True |
False |
| 9. |
Jurors may not be excused for cause solely due to their lack of proficiency in the English language. |
True |
False |
| 10. |
Every law enforcement officer should be excused for cause on general disqualification grounds. |
True |
False |
| 11. |
The following people have an implied bias and can thus be excused for cause: those related by blood or marriage to the parties, an employer or employee of a party, those who have served as jurors during the past year at a trial involving either party, and those who have a pecuniary interest in the subject matter of the trial. |
True |
False |
| 12. |
A juror who is an attorney employed by the same district attorney’s office that is trying a case has an implied bias and can be excused for cause. |
True |
False |
| 13. |
A juror who states that he or she does not want to serve in a trial because it would be too emotional must be excused due to an actual bias. |
True |
False |
| 14. |
The party making a challenge for cause has the burden of proving that a juror is actually biased. |
True |
False |
| 15. |
The plaintiff or prosecution, because it originally filed the case, goes first in challenging jurors for cause. |
True |
False |
| 16. |
The plaintiff or prosecution, because it originally filed the case, goes first in exercising peremptory challenges. |
True |
False |
| 17. |
“Cognizable groups” for purposes of <i>Batson/Wheeler</i> include resident aliens, the hearing-impaired, low-income people, young people, people over 70 years of age, and less-educated people. |
True |
False |
| 18. |
To establish that a prima facie <i>Batson/Wheeler</i> violation has occurred, a party must show that it was more likely than not that an impermissible exercise of the peremptory challenge was made. |
True |
False |
| 19. |
When a <i>Batson/Wheeler</i> violation has been found, the party who successfully raised the issue has the choice of restarting jury selection with a new panel, requiring the challenged juror to be reseated, or being awarded more peremptory challenges. |
True |
False |
| 20. |
If both sides consent, a court may reserve ruling on a Batson/Wheeler challenge until the end of jury selection. |
True |
False |