This week the media reported on several trials in which prospective jurors were asked rather unique voir dire questions.
Star Ledger: Judge in slain Chatham priest trial probes jurors' views on sex and religion
Is there anything about the Catholic Church or Catholic priests that would cause you to not be a fair and impartial juror?
Is there anything about the Catholic Church or Catholic priests and the sexual abuse cases that have been reported in recent years that would prevent you from being a fair and impartial juror?
General questions about religion ask if people are members of the clergy and if they are members of a church, mosque or temple. If they do belong to a house of worship, a two-part question asks
Are you on the governing bodies of your religious community? What is the name of that religious community? to continue reading go here.
NY Times: Unusual Question to Jurors: How Do You Like the Mayor?
One after another, they stitched together a collage of thoughts about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, responding as to whether they had formed opinions about him.
“Some good, some bad,” one woman said.
“The third term I was bothered by,” a man said.
“Doing a good job,” a different man said. “I like him.”
“I don’t particularly like what he is doing with the Board of Education,” offered another man, who added, however, that he was a fan of the mayor’s bike lanes.
This impromptu focus group on Tuesday was convened in a rather unlikely place: a jury box...to continue reading go here.
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