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Even before the first word of testimony, many trials pass through a critical yet haphazard phase: the selection of jurors. In major cases prosecutors sometimes do enlist police or the FBI to check out potential jurors; defense attorneys occasionally commission their own investigations when their clients can foot the bill. But the final decision about a juror is usually based on a large dose of intuition-bolstered, when possible, by past experience...
Nichol, who is doing all the juror questioning himself, is frankly impressed with the team's techniques and is using some questions it suggests. Soon the panel will be whittled down to 38 possible jurors who have not been disqualified for cause; the prosecution will then have six peremptory challenges, the defense 20. Means and Banks will exercise the final say as to how the defense uses its challenges...
...President's claim of Executive confidentiality unless he heard the tapes himself. He therefore asked that the tapes be turned over to him so that he could hear them in his chambers. Sirica promised to keep "privileged portions" secret and excise the tapes so that no grand juror would hear them...
...even back in the '50s, when TV aerials decorated only half the American roofs, Joseph Welch, hero of the McCarthy hearings, warned: "Perhaps we should never televise a hearing until we are as completely adjusted to television as to our newspapers, until such time as no judge, no juror and no witness is appalled, dismayed or frightened by the camera, any more than by a reporter's notebook...
DRESS. In many counties, the jury summons states that the appropriate dress is coat and tie. One who does not wear a coat and tie is often a nonconformist and therefore a bad state's juror. Conservatively well-dressed people are generally stable and good for the state...