Word: voir
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Also seriously threatened: VOIR (for Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar), a scheme to place a radar-equipped robot in orbit around Venus and map its cloud-covered surface. NASA officials are even talking about mothballing the Deep Space Network, a globe-girdling array of antennas that acts as a vital communications "downlink" with all U.S. unmanned planetary spacecraft. One effect of such a move would be to silence the transmissions of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to pass by Uranus...
...criminal defense lawyer, I consider choosing a jury one of the most important and terrifying aspects of a trial because it is my job to make sure those twelve people see my client's side of the case. None of my questions in voir dire is pointless. During that process, it is impossible for me to explain to a juror just why I ask a particular question. Yet when I present my case, I hope the reason becomes clear. Since my client's life is in the hands of those twelve people in the box, I want...
Sometimes, as you know, one is "bumped" on voir dire because he is a reader of TIME...
...common for the jury-selection process to take longer than the trial itself," notes New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fraiman. That complaint is hard to document, but a new study by three professors at the City University of New York does show that voir dire in an average felony trial in New York City takes eight hours over the course of 2½ days. The professors estimate that New York City judges trying felony cases spend at least one-third of their time on jury selection, and that one basic reform could provide the equivalent in man-hours...
...consider questions from the opposing lawyers, he is apt simply to ask the prospective jurors about their general ability to reach a fair verdict. The average time spent on jury selection in federal court is two hours, and, according to the C.U.N.Y. study, there is no evidence that longer voir dire significantly changes the rate of conviction...