Its a process during jury selection, where each side gets a number of “freebies” where they can eliminate a potential juror for no reason at all. There are also legitimate reasons to bump one, as determined by questioning, but it has to be kinda proven… And it’s usually an easy sell to call for “bias” as the reason.
Which is very likely why you would never get on jury for a case like this.
Just saying, that is how it works in the real world
This is why we need to ensure everyone knows about jury nullifcation so it can no longer be a reason for keeping someone off a jury.
That’s OK, you’re still using up the prosecutor’s ammo during jury selection.
How would they keep me off? I mean other than the fact I am not American of course. But someone that was?
Voir dire.
Its a process during jury selection, where each side gets a number of “freebies” where they can eliminate a potential juror for no reason at all. There are also legitimate reasons to bump one, as determined by questioning, but it has to be kinda proven… And it’s usually an easy sell to call for “bias” as the reason.