Voir dire in the Fulton Court

"Voire Dire is the process by which attorneys select, or perhaps more appropriately reject, certain jurors to hear a case.” -Gordon P. Cleary, Trial Evidence Foundations, section 201 - from Wikipedia

So I was summoned to Jury Duty in Fulton Superior Court - and what do you know - I was put in a pool of prospective jurors for a felony criminal case. There are 60 folks in the pool. The “voire dire” process is not yet finished for all of us so we have to go back to finish the process. Almost nobody wants to do this, but the majority suck it up and, from what I can tell, give honest answers to the attorneys’s questions.

But there are a few who claim partiality, or an inability to even be impartial, and they are put through the ringer by the attorneys and judge. Rightly so, I’d say. I don’t want to be here either. But what would the alternative be if everyone got their wishes? It really is right and good to serve on juries.

Then again, I may change my tune after the selections are made. Haha. I doubt it. I really believe this.