Judicial Survey Questions

LTS Q57: Please describe your jury selection process.

LTS A57: I voir dire jurors myself, with follow-up questioning by the court and counsel privately at sidebar when necessary. After the panel has been cleared for cause, I seat the first group of jurors in the jury box, ask each juror to give their name and identify their job, then permit counsel to exercise peremptory strikes. I then replace the stricken jurors to refill the box, and permit counsel to exercise peremptory strikes on the new jurors. This process continues until both sides are out of strikes or are satisfied with the jurors seated in the box.

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* Sorokin, Leo T.

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts