Jury_Process

Jury Process In a criminal trial the way an “impartial jury” is selected is: first representatives from a cross-section of the population are selected, what this means is that the pool of persons from which the actual juries are drawn must be approximate a fair representative cross section of the local population (99). The names come from voter registration, or in some states also licenses. Then these people are summoned and they must come to the courthouse, on the specified date. Both the prosecution and the defense are able to review some information about the potential jurors. Then they have a certain number of preemptory challenges in which they may strike those in which they feel a hunch or intuition about, which is used on both sides to eliminate “extremes of partiality”(131). When this is done, the jury is “impartial” which is not always the case. The history of the jury is really long and has a lot of facts; I’ll try to break it down. In the beginning of the jury system, the qualities looked for in a juror are very different than what we look for today. Back then people wanted jurors who jury, juries, jurors, law, local, impartial, should, selection, think, way, trial, today, time, right, lot, about, wanted, sure, selected, process, decide, both, shall, people, much, made, juror, judges, impartiality, idea, fair, facts, community, changes, case