"The lawyers in this case have estimated that trial will last 4-5 months," McAfee told them. Four hundred and fifty prospective jurors had been subpoenaed to report to the Fulton County courthouse Friday morning in order fill out a jury questionnaire to determine if they were eligible to ...
Many lawyers are unfamiliar with the use of supplemental jury questionnaires, and this unfamiliarity makes them skeptical of the questionnaire’s contents. The strong tendency of attorneys new to juror questionnaires is to resist questions that contain statements that are negative about their client (e...
He claimed he hadn’t seen the video of Floyd’s “I can’t breathe” desperation, but he had visited the site where it happened. On the questionnaire, he wrote that he “somewhat agreed” that police officers might cover up crimes involving use of force, but in court he said he had ...
When the first of 304 potential jurors in the O.J Simpson case return to court this month, they will be quizzed on a sweeping questionnaire about their attitudes toward Simpson, the two people he is accused of killing, celebrities in general, domestic violence, DNA testing and interracial marr...