Jury selection is not only—nor even mostly—about selecting (or deselecting) jurors.
If you use voir dire simply to find the jurors whom you want to strike, you're missing out on most of the value of jury selection.
These rules will help you anyway.
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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.
Mark, Good series with the “Rules.”
A successful closing argument and road to a Not Guilty begins in voir dire.
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