Trial Advocacy Research Guide: Jury Selection

This book provides a guide for the novice and a practical source of new techniques for the experienced advocate.

This title is designed to help the reader select the best possible jury for trial. It familiarizes the reader with relevant issues and provides detailed, practical instructions and aids.

This text addresses forensic mental health assessment as it relates to the selection of jury members. The authors review the law governing attorneys' decisions to remove potential jurors from jury service, including laws prohibiting the systematic removal of particular categories of people from the jury. The book provides an overview of standardized tools for assessing personality traits and attitudes that may be related to jurors' verdicts as well as the research establishing the validity of these measures.

This work offers expert analysis of the law governing jury selection with an explanation of the scientific methodology employed in that process.

Designed for civil litigators, criminal defense attorneys, and prosecutors, Jury Selection Strategy & Science explores the psychological, scientific, and legal aspects of the jury selection, and includes guidance on issues such as nonverbal cues and confirming the existence of bias. Last updated in 2010.

This title offers an integrated approach to jury selection, providing the latest social science methodology and voir dire techniques in order to help the reader identify problems, spot personality traits, and isolate social and political biases that may affect jury decisions. No Longer Updated in Print; available via WestlawNext.

This book is intended for law students and fledgling lawyers who are acquiring their jury selection skills, as well as veteran trial lawyers who want to refresh and expand their approaches. The book provides practical guidance for how to prepare for jury selection; craft motions and responses to motions regarding voir dire; exercise challenges; make favorable impressions of counsel, the client, and the case; break the ice and question prospective jurors; and evaluate jurors and tap into hidden beliefs and pre-dispositions.

This book focuses on the skills needed to conduct effective voir dire and jury selection. This guide will help the reader understand effective voir dire and jury selection strategies and adapt them to the unique circumstances of a particular case.