Explain the term “peremptory challenges”. How are peremptory challenges used during jury selection? How does the Massachusetts and California courts differ in their use of peremptory challenges?
Describe the concept of a “professional jury”.Your description should be detailed enough to educate someone on the topic who has never heard of the idea before- and should be at least one or two full paragraphs in length.
What are your personal thoughts about the use of professional jurists? If you were on trial for a serious crime, would you want your jurors to be randomly selected from the jury pool or would you want them to be trained, paid professionals?
Explain your response with a detailed explanation.
a detailed summary of the Georgia case before the US Supreme Court (based on the NPR radio report). Your summary should include information regarding how race factored into jury selection during the trial of Timothy Foster. You should also describe how training programs for Prosecutors in Philadelphia were trained to find ways to remove black jurors through the use of peremptory strikes. Your answer should include direct quotes and details from the report to demonstrate that you listened to the entire 7 minute report. Citations should be included in your response.
- Read the article titled How Much Should Lawyers Know When Picking a Jury?
- Read the Blog post Professional Jurors: Has the Time Come? on the Huffington Post website located at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-dimond/professional-jurors-has-t_b_867839.html
- Listen to the radio report on NPR’s Morning Edition which aired on Nov 2nd, 2015 regarding Racial Discrimination on juries and the Supreme Court by clicking on the link to the report in the Module 9 folder. If the link doesn’t work, you can google the report or cut and paste the link into your browser.
