How To Win Your Court Case Before opening Statement

Most veteran trial lawyers will agree that while a case is not always won in jury selection, it can beyond doubt be lost there. It is one of the three most important junctures of any trial (the other two being occasion statement and cross-examination of the first witness), yet voir dire usually is relegated to the proverbial back burner, only to be attended to in the waning days--or even hours--just before trial begins.

If You'Ve Waited Until The Weekend Before Trial To Plan Your Voir Dire, You'Ve Waited Too Long

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The building of your jury option strategy needs to start weeks before your case gets to trial, after you've conducted your pre-trial explore (you have conducted pre-trial research, haven't you?) and you are beginning to put in order your case-in-chief in earnest. If you find yourself waiting until Saturday or Sunday before trial, jotting some questions down on a pad and then getting up in court on Monday and conducting your voir dire, without the benefit of research-based profiles or of rehearsal, you could well be missing out on the occasion to educate your jurors and to weed out those most perilous to you.

How To Win Your Court Case Before opening Statement

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Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana (yr.1942, pt.16); Ministers' Returns for the Board of Health Reported to the Clerk, Circuit Court, Overview

Title: Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana : Ministers' Returns for the Board of Health Reported to the Clerk, Circuit Court, Indianapolis, Ind. Apr. 11-May 31, 1929 to June 1944 Volume: yr.1942, pt.16 Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. Publication date: 1929 Subjects: Marriage records Marriage records Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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The Purpose Of Voir Dire Is Not To decide If Jurors Can Be Fair And Impartial!

Sorry, but there is no such thing as an impartial juror. Every man who arrives in the courtroom--juror, lawyer, judge, clerk, court reporter, bailiff--brings two things:

1. Life experiences.

2. The attitudes that are a supervene of those life experiences.

So, the purpose of your questioning is to search those attitudes and experiences, get jurors to talk about them, and then send home the folks who have attitudes that are hostile to your case and/or your client.

The Key Purposes of Voir Dire

o Find and dismiss jurors who will be harmful to your case

o Get the themes of your case in front of jurors

o Find out who your jurors are and what they have to say about the issues, so that you have a best idea of how to recapitulate with them during your case.

Your Goals in Voir Dire

o Get them to talk!

o Get them to talk about your themes

o Get them to talk themselves off the jury, if they are hostile to your case

If You Only Remember One Thing From This Article, This Is It

Do you go into trial without practicing your occasion statement? Then why not spend time rehearsing the part of the trial when you speak to jurors first? If you don't practice your voir dire, why not? If you do practice it, do you practice with population in the room? If you practice with population in the room, are these laypeople? If these are laypeople in the room, do you ask them for their feedback? If you ask them for feedback, do you apply it to your jury option going into trial?

The lowest line is, your voir dire--not your occasion statement--is when you make your first impression on the jurors. Make the most of the opportunity. Practice, refine your voir dire.

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