Trials-Jurors_Asking_Questions-Captions.xml
Trials-Jurors_Asking_Questions-Captions.xml
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<p begin="00:00:00.25" end="00:00:05.30">This is your legal minute, brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
<p begin="00:00:06.00" end="00:00:11.30">In Ohio, jurors sitting on a case are allowed to ask questions during a trial.</p>
<p begin="00:00:11.40" end="00:00:15.70">This has not always been the case, and it’s a relatively new process.</p>
<p begin="00:00:15.80" end="00:00:24.40">According to a specific statewide rule, the court may permit jurors to propose questions for the judge to ask of a witness.</p>
<p begin="00:00:24.50" end="00:00:33.40">The juror questions must be submitted to the judge in writing, and the court must keep a record of all proposed questions, whether</p>
<p begin="00:00:33.50" end="00:00:40.10">asked or not. Jurors may not show a question or discuss a question with other jurors before it’s submitted.</p>
<p begin="00:00:40.20" end="00:00:48.70">Before the court reads a question to a witness, the court must show the question to all the attorneys and give them an opportunity</p>
<p begin="00:00:48.80" end="00:00:52.00">to object. This is done outside of the hearing of the jury.</p>
<p begin="00:00:52.10" end="00:00:59.00">Attorneys also are given a chance to requestion a witness after the jurors’ questions are asked.</p>
<p begin="00:00:59.10" end="00:01:07.50">Jurors also are instructed by the judge not to infer anything if a particular submitted question was not read.</p>
<p begin="00:01:07.60" end="00:01:14.00">This legal minute is brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
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