You know both the defense and the prosecutors have input on the jury selection, right?
Granted if this person lied in those interviews, thats something. If not...
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You know both the defense and the prosecutors have input on the jury selection, right?
Granted if this person lied in those interviews, thats something. If not...
I literally read her tweets themselves, yes. Of course to be fair that was "just" a retweet and not her actual words. That makes it so much better though I'm sure for an "impartial" forewoman.
I'm sure it works differently in every jurisdiction but of the two times I have been on a jury the judge, prosecution, and defense all had the power to dismiss a juror. One case I was on the judge dismissed a juror outright after just reading their answers. The prosecution and defense then asked several questions to see if they wanted to dismiss anyone but didn't. Of course these were all minor, low profile cases.
The prosecution and defense didn't really "pick" anyone, rather there were about 30 potential jurors and only 6 were needed. 6 people were called up randomly (I was one of course, YAY!) and after the judge dismissed the one juror another juror was chosen at random to replace them. Then the questions came and if the defense or prosecution wanted anyone gone they could have asked the judge to dismiss them and another person at random would have been called up.
Again like I said each jurisdiction is probably different, but I imagine they all work similar to this.
I edited my post with more information but yes, the pool isn't unlimited but there is usually a lot to choose from. I'm sure they can call in more jurors if there are too many that have to be thrown out. Of course the judge can put an end to it if they think the defense or prosecution is dismissing too many jurors for no good reason, but if there are good reasons to keep dismissing jurors I imagine the judge should be okay with it. But again there are reasons to believe even the judge in this case was anything but impartial.