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(314) 500-HURTThis thing about objecting all the time, don’t object during voir dire. There’s nothing to preserve on there. The concern is to pay attention to the jurors that you’re speaking, to get information from them, to find out if they are bad for your case. If they’re bad enough, Gary will explain, if he hasn’t already, how you get around the series of questions you have to make to get a strike for cause. I don’t remember a civil case where a juror was struck for cause, maybe if they had ten back surgeries or something, but in criminal cases which I was a prosecutor and then I had a lot of criminal cases with some circuit attorneys trying them and public defenders, and there are a lot of strikes for cause because the jurors will say, “I never will believe a police officer,” or, “I always believe a police officer.” Classic. But in civil cases, it’s hard, so don’t be objecting all the time. Just get through. Try to pay attention to the other lawyer’s questions but more important to their jurors’ answers so that you can move along, and this gets into my next point, which I’ll go right into so that Gary doesn’t interrupt me.
Be respectful of the jurors’ time. They are paid $12 for a whole day of voir dire in the city. $12. And when they come out of jury, they get paid $18 down, so I always used to look at my jury the next morning, the 12 people and one or two alternates, and say, “Now you got a 50% increase.” It’s not $18 an hour, it’s $18 a day. So, be aware of that. And also be aware that the jurors are citizens. Some lawyers are very dismissive. They think the jurors don’t wanna be there. That’s true…
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