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Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection - Jeffery T. Frederick

Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection

Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, Fourth Edition
Buch | Softcover
744 Seiten
2019
American Bar Association (Verlag)
978-1-64105-026-5 (ISBN)
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The voir dire and jury selection process is one of the most challenging aspects of a jury trial. It is at this time that lawyers must identify and remove potential jurors who harbor some bias or hold beliefs that would make them less beneficial than others. Success in jury selection requires lawyers to draw upon a number of basic skills. These skills include the ability to:





Operate effectively within the jury selection system in the trial jurisdiction

Attain the major goals of voir dire (i.e., gathering info, rapport, education, and    persuasion)

Identify critical opinions, biases, and experiences of jurors that can influence their decisions

Encourage jurors to reveal important information about themselves

Utilize the information about their opinions and feelings that potential jurors communicate through their nonverbal behavior

Develop and ask the questions on voir dire necessary to uncover desired information

Employ methods for handling common situations and problems (e.g., reluctant jurors, difficult jurors, stealth jurors, negative spirals, and pretrial publicity) that arise during voir dire

Capitalize on the information available through the use of juror questionnaires

Effectively utilize information available on jurors through Internet sources and minimize potential   threats to jury trials posed by the Internet
¦ Operate effectively in courts-martial member selections
¦ Exercise peremptory challenges and challenges for cause in a manner that removes the least desirable   potential jurors


The goal of this book is to promote the skills needed to be successful in the area of voir dire and jury selection. It is through the sharpening of these skills that lawyers take a major step in improving the chances of a favorable verdict at trial.


Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury goes beyond other books on jury selection in its focus on the skills needed to conduct effective voir dire and jury selection. Having a list of questions to ask is only a starting point. Conducting effective voir dire and jury selection requires developing strategies that secure the necessary information and adapt to the unique circumstances that lawyers face in their trial jurisdictions. Effective jury selection does not result from memorizing questions from a book. It is a dynamic process that places a premium on knowing what is needed and how to get it.


Praise for Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection


"Jury selection is the most important and often the least known trial lawyer skill. Mastering Voir Dire is by far the most complete and effective jury selection guide available. ... It has simple, short examples from real trials tied to hard-core research and common sense. I have tried many cases, but what I used to know has changed in this digital world. Thanks for Mastering Voir Dire."
--Morris Dees, Founder and Chief Trial Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center


"The much anticipated Fourth Edition of Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection confirms Dr. Jeffrey Frederick as America’s foremost jury expert. With this thoroughly updated and lucidly written work, Frederick moves the needle in demonstrating how practicing lawyers can identify open-minded jurors and craft winning case narratives. A must-read book for the trial bar if ever there was one."
--John Monahan, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law

Dr. Jeffrey T. Frederick, President, Jeffrey Frederick Trial Consulting Services, LLC. Dr. Frederick has been involved in jury selection and jury research since 1975. He received his MS (1979) and Ph.D. (1980) in Social Psychology from North Carolina State University.  He has assisted the Department of Justice, Office of Independent Counsel, United States Attorneys’ Offices, and state prosecutors and has assisted criminal defense attorneys in both civilian courts and courts-martial. He has assisted attorneys for plaintiffs and defendants in the civil area, including attorneys general and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. In addition to personally assisting in hundreds of cases, he has written extensively on the topic of jury trials and trial advocacy, including three key books in the area, Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, 4th Edition (2018), Mastering Voir Dire: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires (2018), and The Psychology of the American Jury (1987), as well as numerous articles on the jury-related topics, including Chapter 15: Online Jury Selection, The Online Courtroom: The Future of Remote Video in the Litigation Process (2022). Dr. Frederick is a frequent speaker on juries and jury issues. He has spoken at programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, American Law Institute/American Bar Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychology/Law Society, American Society of Trial Consultants, Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National District Attorneys Association, and numerous state civil and criminal bar associations and governmental programs. He teaches U.S. Tort Law as part of the Anglo-American Law Program at the Law School of the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.  For more information, see Jeffrey Frederick Trial Consulting Services, LLC (jftcs.com). He can be reached by email at jfrederick@jftcs.com, or by phone at (434) 249-7330. August 2022.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Zivilverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10 1-64105-026-8 / 1641050268
ISBN-13 978-1-64105-026-5 / 9781641050265
Zustand Neuware
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