It should be cut back to only a few questions that only the judge can ask. "Do you have any relationship with any party involved in this case?" "Do you have any personal interest in this case?" "Do you have any preconceived ideas of guilt in this case?" are about all I can think of that are appropriate, and a yes answer isn't necessarily a reason for exclusion.
You have the right to take the Fifth, but not if you are a juror.
Let's see: Hmmm. Section 8 Tenants from Flax Hill. They don't look too bad and are reliable against the cops. Now let's hit the Post Office. They can get the time off, and not for nothing are they known as the Defendant's Friend. By all means, make sure you restrict juror search to the Democrat registration rolls. Oh yeah, let's take a look at some college students who weren't yet born at the time of the incident, they'll be cool with the drug thing.
Borscht! Skakel ought to be tried by a jury of his CT peers who made it: contemporary married, working, family people. Why not some people who did not take this stupid, yet arrogant SOB's path of excape and evasion from all responsibility?
After this is done, Sherman will wind up with a collection of fools who would let Hitler walk out of the court room a free man.