Jury Selection in a Criminal Case

The first stage of a criminal jury trial is that of jury selection or voir dire. The basic idea is that an attorney can ask questions to determine whether the potential juror can be fair and unbiased. Jury selection is one of my favorite areas of the criminal trial process. I love studying the concepts and psychology of the jury selection process. I have given numerous lectures on the area of jury selection to the Barristers in December 2008 and to the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. I am studying whether authoritarianism is an indicator of juror bias.