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Litigation

Sep. 6, 2000

Astute Asking Filters Out Wrong Jurors

Brickner's Bits by David Brickner. As we know, voir dire has four objectives: get the jurors to like you (if only just a little), desensitize them to the really bad stuff you've tried valiantly but failed to exclude in your pretrial motions, indoctrinate them as to your theory and its reasonableness, and (the one legitimate objective) find out which jurors are truly wrong for your case.

        By David Brickner
        
        As we know, voir dire has four objectives: get the jurors to like you (if only just a little), desensitize them to the really bad stuff you've tried valiantly but failed to exclude in your pretrial motions, indoctrinate them as to your theory and its reasonableness, and (the one legitimate objec...

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