Word: voir
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Even jury duty in Los Angeles is glamorous. During jury selection at the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, at least half a dozen people connected to the film industry went through voir dire. At the end of the process, Peter Guber, former chairman of Sony Pictures, ended up being impaneled. Guber revealed that while he was head of the studio, his company made a film with Ryder, but after promising he could be objective, he was selected to serve. Guber, who heads Mandalay Entertainment, will have to lay off Daily Variety for a while. The judge has forbidden jurors...
...Finally, toward dinnertime, the Republicans called Richard Grossman, a rubber and plastics "expert" whose status as such was immediately challenged by perhaps over-combative Democratic lawyer Stephen Zack, who insisted on conducting a voir dire (to test a witness's expertise). Zack was unceremoniously cut short by a red-faced Judge Sauls, who furiously pointed out the attorney was not asking relevant questions and told him to sit down in no uncertain terms...