{"id":5210,"date":"2007-06-20T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-06-20T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:27:32","slug":"jury-voir-dire-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2007\/06\/20\/jury-voir-dire-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Voir Dire Topics (Checklist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Where they live\/who they live with\/family make-up<\/li>\n<li>Occupation (and relevant occupations of spouse, children, parents, close friends and relatives)<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with litigants, lawyers, the case, etc. . . .<\/li>\n<li>Prior experience as jurors<\/li>\n<li>Prior experience with lawyers (as clients, as witnesses, etc. . . . )<\/li>\n<li>Prior litigation experience (and satisfaction with the exposure)\n<ul>\n<li>If went to trial . . .<\/li>\n<li>If settled\/resolved . . .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The fact that this case has not resolved &#8211; could be the fault of either or both sides.<\/li>\n<li>Too many &#8220;frivolous&#8221; lawsuits?\n<ul>\n<li>What about frivolous Defenses?<\/li>\n<li>Judge this case on its own merits?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Too many &#8220;runaway&#8221; jury verdicts in the news?\n<ul>\n<li>Newspapers don&#8217;t report on defense verdicts on cases where the plaintiff should have won.<\/li>\n<li>Willing to award reasonable damages?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Advertising lawyers on T.V. &#8211; Embarrassment to all.<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to act as the trier of fact?\n<ul>\n<li>Judge credibility of witnesses?<\/li>\n<li>Expert witnesses<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the basis of their opinions.&nbsp; (The moon is not made of green cheese.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burden of Proof &#8211; Hold me to it, but willingness to reward the appropriate side with your verdict if burden of proof is met.<\/li>\n<li>Plaintiff goes first\n<ul>\n<li>No intention to invade privacy.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to all the evidence of both sides.<\/li>\n<li>Plaintiff gets the last word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to award &#8220;Non&#8221; economic damages &#8211; pain and suffering.<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to turn plaintiff away with zero<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to award large sum if the law so provides and the numbers add up.<\/li>\n<li>If juror is affiliated with insurance industry . . .\n<ul>\n<li>Willingness to disregard bias in favor of insurers and bias regarding evaluation of case value.<\/li>\n<li>Although there are claims without merit, many claims with merit\/value are brought<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jury system&#8217;s importance to the democratic process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact<\/a> Aitken * Aitken * Cohn today to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where they live\/who they live with\/family make-up Occupation (and relevant occupations of spouse, children, parents, close friends and relatives) Familiarity with litigants, lawyers, the case, etc. . . . Prior experience as jurors Prior experience with lawyers (as clients, as witnesses, etc. . . . ) Prior litigation experience (and satisfaction with the exposure) If&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2007\/06\/20\/jury-voir-dire-checklist\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-jury-selection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}