The potential jury pool was broken into smaller groups for questioning about possible conflicts.
During jury selection, Judge Holwell had passed out fifty-two questions for members of the jury pool.
Military officers in the jury pool indicated that they saw no problem with trying Mr Khadr.
This has also tainted a jury pool when someone is brought up on charges.
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Often trials are granted a change of venue because of fear of a tainted jury pool.
Trials are often granted a change of venue because of the fear of a tainted jury pool.
Some of the jury members never finished high school and came straight out of the egalitarian NYC jury pool.
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Discharging such people skews the jury pool towards those who are more rule-bound, trusting of authority, and likely to convict.
Supporters say they want to increase the size of the available jury pool while helping immigrants integrate into U.S. society.
One option: granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office.
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The pretrial release of these irrelevant red herrings is a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool.
What's more, in this case rife with journalistic stars as witnesses, there seem to be an uncommon number of journalists in the jury pool.
Day one of the trial is mostly about narrowing down the jury pool to a group that both the defense and prosecution can agree to.
While critics say the jury pool is less educated (two of the ten jurors in the Abbott case had four-year college degrees), judges there are patent experts.
In a city with a relatively small jury pool, it also seems that almost every juror called has some connection, either to one of the witnesses, lawyers, or players.
Members of the jury pool were sent home after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court stopped the closed process in response to a constitutional challenge by the Portland Press Herald.
Cleland told members of the jury pool that jurors in the case will not be sequestered, saying he will trust them not to read newspapers or follow the case online.
The group argues that it is close enough to ground zero for the spill to satisfy plaintiffs who want justice meted out on their turf but far enough away from New Orleans to find a fair jury pool.
He had claimed to be upset about a change in the prison regime which meant that while he was taking part in classes, others were allowed to exercise, chat or play pool, the jury heard.
Jury duty is only interesting when you are in the pool, right?
Jury selection can be a long arduous process of selecting members from a larger pool, questioning of the jurors on their own background (nothing too probing) and whether they think they have any biases that would impact the case (previously being duped by a stock broker might get one out of serving in this trial).
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