Modern jury selection is stacking the deck. They ask far too many personal questions. They are preselecting the verdict with ringers.
“Modern jury selection is stacking the deck. They ask far too many personal questions.”
It’s an old system that made more sense during the horse and buggy days when it was only practical to have jurors from areas close to the trial, so you have a former president with 47% of the vote getting a jury full of people who voted 95% against him...not really fair.
What would work better now, at least for politically-charged cases, is to have the jury pool randomly selected from a community that closely matches Trump’s (or anyone else’s) results in their last election, which I’m sure some communities, even in the NYC area, do just that...or if needed, pull them in from other parts of the country.
Regarding ‘personal questions’ ... hopefully PDJT’s lawyers are getting enough social media info on each panel member to scour the internet for the political sense of each. If the lawyers find that a panel member is a leftist fanatic they may be able to get them tossed. I am hoping that the inability to seat an impartial jury after going thru hundreds and hundreds of candidates may trigger a change of venue.