Exam 9: Jury Selection and Trial Procedure

Lawyers have two types of challenges they can use to remove a potential juror: challenges for cause and:

Hannah is a trial consultant hired to assemble a shadow jury in a high-stakes trial. She may ask the shadow jury to perform all of the following tasks, EXCEPT:

The biggest, most important benefit of having a shadow jury in place, according to the text, is that, because the shadow jurors would actually hear the same testimony as the actual jury, they can provide:

The _____ hypothesis predicts that, when the characteristics of jurors and of the defendant are similar enough, it might influence verdicts.

Law does not set a limit to the number of _____ though they have to be approved by the judge, and judges have _____.

Among the traits noted as being associated with jurors' verdicts is how people tend to explain what happens to them, or how they answer the question: Do you believe that what happens to you is usually the result of your own behavior? This trait is referred to as:

What is the ethical question most pertinent to the use of jury consultants?

A juror that scores high on measures of authoritarianism would be least likely to convict a:

Studies testing the effectiveness of judge's instructions to the jury to disregard pretrial publicity have found:

Iris works as a trial consultant. When helping the attorney during voir dire, she is likely to use _____ analysis to gather additional information about the potential jurors.

It would appear as though there are certain personality traits or tendencies that have some bearing on jury verdicts. However, these traits only play a role in the jury decision if the:

Even though the _____ is the best predictor of what kind of verdict the jury reaches in a case, different jurors evaluate and interpret the same evidence _____.

If a potential juror is asked to be removed without explanations as to why he or she is unlikely to be able to deliver an impartial verdict, this type of removal is referred to as a:

Voir dire is all of the following, EXCEPT:

The last opportunity for questioning a witness is given to the _____ attorney during _____ examination.

As opposed to early juries at the dawn of the United States, modern-day juries consist of people who:

_____ attorneys get more peremptory challenges because _____ at the trial.

In theory, the number of challenges for cause is _____, while peremptory challenges _____.

According to the Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968, the voter registration lists are the _____ source of eligible jurors.

Voir dire allows attorneys: