Because it would get to more of the truth.
Attorneys will ask prospective jurors various questions to determine if they will be a good fit for the jury. Prospective jurors can be dismissed if the attorney feels they are biased.
It depends where they are in the process. During jury selection, there is an opportunity to interview the jury pool. The questions can be personal, but should have some relationship to the case and the ability to serve. Once the trial has started, there should not be individual conversations with jurors.
Only Texas allows juries in custody cases, but jury questions are not allowed in advance. You get the next batch of available jurors on the list.
Typically juries in criminal trials consist of 12 jurors with a couple alternates in case any of the jurors drop out for health reasons or are dismissed.
Yes, unless they are sequestered.
Jurors are people who are qualified to answer foreclosure questions truthfully. Not only will they do it, but they have to. They are sworn to answer truthfully about qualifications for the case.
During deliberations, the jurors speak among themselves and discuss and debate the evidence and witness testimony and come to a reasoned conclusion on the verdict.
Both parties choose the jury. In many cases prospective jurors will be asked to answer a series of questions. Both sides can then interview jurors and each gets to reject or accept them.
The states that expressly encourage judges to allow jurors to question witnesses are Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada and North Carolina. Out of these jurisdictions, Arizona, Florida, and Kentucky require that judges allow jurors to ask written questions. The respective highest state courts of Indiana and Kentucky have ruled jurors have a right to ask questions of witnesses. (See related link below for more information.)
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Absolutely not. HOWEVER - when selecting a jury panel - during Voire Dire, the attorneys questioning the prospective jurors MAY, for their own reasons, exercise a peremptory challenge against certain jurors they feel may be hostile to their case. They do NOT have to explain their reason why, but the sex of the juror could be a factor in a particular case.
By law, you and the states attorneys office have to agree on the fact that you and them agree that the citizens before you are impartial and interrested in only the facts of law to bring about a truthful and just finding at the end of your trial.