BBM
Assuming potential jurors answer questions truthfully (which is not always the case) I believe voir dire can often find out what potential jurors consciously think. ("To see them say") But often the problem is what jurors may unconsciously think. Unconscious thoughts about a defendant's guilt may come from lots of things but media coverage & bias is one.) I don't think it's possible for attorneys to deliver an effective lesson during voir dire on how "outsmart" one's unconscious bias. And signs of that bias may arise during deliberations. I saw it happen when I was on a jury and I can promise the voir dire had been thorough. (During lengthy and sometimes heated deliberations someone said "he probably wouldn't have been arrested if he wasn't guilty.")
MOO
Perhaps. I wasn't addressing social psyc experiments but rather what voir dire can or can't accomplish. (But a study doesn't have to be labeled a study of "voir dire" to be applied to it so some of the cited studies may be relevant.)We could probably judge that better if any of the studies done included analysis of how voir dire affects judgment vs non exposure to voir dire.
Perhaps. I wasn't addressing social psyc experiments but rather what voir dire can or can't accomplish. (But a study doesn't have to be labeled a study of "voir dire" to be applied to it so some of the cited studies may be relevant.)
Regardless, it seems pretty unrealistic to think brief verbal instructions from an attorney given during jury selection will alter a chosen juror's unconscious feelings or bias that may arise during deliberations. We know that sort of intervention can't work to change unconscious feelings based on lots of real life clinical situations -- a therapist can't simply tell a client to "stop those unconscious thoughts-- think this way instead!" We also know unconscious bias affects the information one takes in. That applies to jurors too.
MOO
Taking a brief break in the Courtroom.
Judge not happy with the published image of various media websites.
Jmo
Granted; detached from reality, IMO.I wonder if BK ever did interview actual convicts for his research, but if he did, did he ask what went through their minds at trial? Granted this is merely a hearing, but what is going through his? I sense duper's delight.
All the attention he couldn't get naturally...
Now he has staff (i.e. his legal team) doing his bidding.
The process itself is very impersonal. I mean, they're taking about him and he's right there. Maybe real life is a lot like that for him. Talked about but rarely talked to? Outsider, looking in? Insider, looking out.
Is it possible for him to box out what happened around 4:10am that morning? Or is fully grounded in the moment here, like he's on TV in the TV?
Has to be surreal.
I see no discomfort. No remorse. No real engagement even.
JMO
It was a screen grab of the top news videos with a boolean search of the defendant's name. National news clips.I was distracted and missed that. What were they showing?
I've gone through the selection process 5 times. Only been seated 3 times.I would have agreed with you before I went through a jury selection process. Having done so (I wasn't chosen as they already had the number of jurors needed before they got to me), I was very much impressed with how they stressed and explained the process of remaining unbiased. It does have an impact, it changed my POV.
Also, as mentioned before, the impact of unconscious bias varies according to the amount and quality of evidence presented at trial, as does deliberation with a jury of one's peers.
He was arrested on a fugitive warrant.
5:48
Chapter 45:
19-4516. BAIL-- IN WHAT CASES-- CONDITIONS OF BOND. Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the state in which it was committed, a judge or magistrate in this state may admit the person arrested to bail by bond with sufficient sureties, and in such sum as he deems proper, conditioned for his appearance before him at a time specified in such bond, and for his surrender, to be arrested upon the warrant of the governor of this state.
jmo