Anyone surprised by this has never sat voir dire. No one on earth is as biased and judgmental as the yokels trying to get out of jury duty claim to be. Both times I've gone through this I was hoping the judge would start handing out contempt of court citations.
In Washington, DC, nobody but the judge and the lawyers gets to hear what the potential juror says. I suppose it would diminish the boredom of the voir dire, but when juror x gets sent back to the waiting room early or shuffled out of the box during the final cull, none of the other jurors have a clue what it is about.
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Anyone surprised by this has never sat voir dire. No one on earth is as biased and judgmental as the yokels trying to get out of jury duty claim to be. Both times I've gone through this I was hoping the judge would start handing out contempt of court citations.
In Washington, DC, nobody but the judge and the lawyers gets to hear what the potential juror says. I suppose it would diminish the boredom of the voir dire, but when juror x gets sent back to the waiting room early or shuffled out of the box during the final cull, none of the other jurors have a clue what it is about.