With the Holmes jury selection underway and the whole world watching, I thought it relevant to tap into some of the issues that are...

It’s been said many times that you win or lose your case in jury selection. But is this really true? Is jury selection so critically...

The jurors in the Drew Peterson case are drawing some media attention. While it seems to be out of a movie (Runaway Jury, in fact), the...

Voir dire time in many places is now limited to 15-30 minutes (if you get attorney-conducted voir dire at all!). Aside from filing...

Preponderance is one major foundation of all civil lawsuits. If jurors truly made their decisions on the basis of more likely right than...

The more I am called in to help attorneys with jury selection, the more I realize their money may have been spent better elsewhere. Am I...

As advanced as humans are, we are still primitively just mammals belonging to a herd.  Animals and people stay in herds because it...

Do you ever feel like jurors decided your case randomly or based on something other than the evidence you presented?  It’s highly...

I often come across attorneys who have trouble trusting jurors.  I can’t blame them – it’s hard to give up control over your case to the...

There have been many studies done on lie detection and the results are often disheartening.  Most of us, including police officers, fare...

Attorneys are often worried about asking questions in voir dire that elicit responses that are harmful to your side of the case.  For...

When you are selection (or de-selecting) jurors, it is easy to focus on individual jurors to the point that you forget about how jurors...

It still astounds me how unaware the court system and some attorneys are regarding juror bias and prejudice.  In this article (click for...

Attorneys often make the mistake in voir dire of failing to be honest with jurors.  I often see attorneys try to hide bad facts or spend...

You may have heard of the “CSI Effect.”  It is a more recent phenomenon that is so named because it is caused in good part by television...

The law is daunting.  Half the time, attorneys don’t even understand what legal writings mean and yet every day, we ask lay persons to...

Some cases end after jury selection – you’ve either set yourself up to win or lose the trial.  But the result normally does not revolve...