Trials-Voir_Dire-Captions.xml
Trials-Voir_Dire-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="00:00:09.80">The first part of a jury trial is called “jury selection.”</p>
<p begin="00:00:09.90" end="00:00:12.50">Formerly, this was called “voir dire.”</p>
<p begin="00:00:12.60" end="00:00:17.50">The idea behind voir dire is to allow the judge and the attorneys to ask questions</p>
<p begin="00:00:17.60" end="00:00:23.80">of potential jurors to determine whether a juror is fit for jury service in that case.</p>
<p begin="00:00:23.90" end="00:00:31.10">Often, the questions of potential jurors are very personal, and a probing of pre-existing biases or prejudices.</p>
<p begin="00:00:31.20" end="00:00:40.70">There are two ways that a potential juror can be removed during voir dire—one is for cause, and secondly, by a peremptory challenge.</p>
<p begin="00:00:40.80" end="00:00:49.90">A juror may be removed “for cause” if he or she has such a preconceived bias or prejudice in a case that they could not be fair to the parties.</p>
<p begin="00:00:50.00" end="00:00:58.20">Secondly, each side has a designated number of jurors that they can remove for any reason whatsoever other than race;</p>
<p begin="00:00:58.30" end="00:01:01.00">those are called “peremptory challenges.”</p>
<p begin="00:01:01.10" end="00:01:07.00">This legal minute is brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
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