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    18 hours ago

    Isn’t it a random selection (ignoring any possibility for manipulation for a moment) and then each lawyer gets a certain number of objections to a juror?

    I guess with this they can still try and stack a CEO sympathetic jury still.

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      17 hours ago

      Trying to rig the jury to be sympathetic to your side is one essential aspect of good lawyering. The rules are theoretically just objective filters applied to a random sample, but in practice it is a pure contest of skill between the two legal teams.

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        17 hours ago

        Oh I’m not against the practice you need to remove people that are not going to be impartial.

        I just find jurisprudence interesting in general so thought I would mention it.