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Yeah, when they question the jury pool, they'll ask questions like "have you or anyone you know ever had an issue with health insurance?" Anyone answering yes will be told to leave. I've served on juries twice and depending on the state, the prosecutor and defense can strike 3 jurors each for cause. But little known factoid is the questions they ask the pool beforehand can be used to strike jurors too.
Comment by techdaddykraken at 07/12/2024 at 03:37 UTC
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Yes but each side only gets a certain amount of strikes, after that you have to go with whoever is in front of you
Comment by troopinfernal at 07/12/2024 at 03:39 UTC
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Voir dire. I work on a lot of voir dire for my job. Often when a witness says they would be biased, the judge talks to them for two minutes and they end up saying, yeah, sure, I guess I can be unbiased. But it almost never sounds like they actually adequately hashed out their bias.