Word: chernoff
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During yesterday's session, defense attorney Willie Davis and prosecutor George Fisher presented their closing arguments and Judge Paul Chernoff informed the jury of the legal standards involved in the case...
...Chernoff questioned potential jurors yesterday on several topics to determine whether they would be impartial if assigned to the case. Chernoff asked the 51 members of the jury pool if they knew any of the parties to the case, if they had ever been raped or accused of rape or if they were friendly with police officers...
...Chernoff interviewed jurors who gave positive responses to his questions and excused them if he determined that they might be biased...
Davis, Fisher and Chernoff eventually settled on 14 country residents to decide the case. Two of the 14 are alternates, who will hear the evidence against Watkins but will not participate in deliberations unless another juror is excused during the trial...
According to the indictment read aloud by Chernoff, Watkins allegedly raped the undergraduate woman after she went to his apartment to demand the return of a sexually explicit videotape made earlier in their relationship...