If it wasn’t on video, you wouldn’t believe it. A prosecutor teaching other prosecutors how to pick a jury at voir dire.
He thinks that blacks and smart people are the worst kind of jurors for prosecutors. According to him, blacks give too many not guilty verdicts, and smart people over-think “beyond a reasonable doubt” and try to figure out what it actually means – if you are a prosecutor, you don’t want that – you don’t want people who actually think about what the law requires them to do.
I don’t think I want Dave Chappelle as a juror on any of my panels any time soon . . . or maybe I do. Funny stuff.
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Doug Goyen, Attorney
www.dwilawyerdallas.com
Elliott Wilcox has some good tips on doing a meaningful voir dire / jury selection at trial.
Herbert Stern talks about Voir Dire – Jury Selection – and gives a list of 7 things “not to do” during jury selection.
David Ball interviewing Gary Johnson on the issue of “who gets the money” – one of the issues that Gary wanted to find out at voir dire was if the jurors had a problem with his client getting the money.
Here’s the classic juror trying to get out of jury duty. Its always the juror I think will be the best on my case too . . . suddenly they come up with some crazy excuse or reason they can’t be fair (not that Larry David would be good on any of my cases – maybe on some):
An example of voir dire, from the classic comedy “My Cousin Vinny”. I like movie excerpts because this is what jurors expect to see when they go to trial, realistic or not. Besides, this one is funny:
