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Leadership Traits are Important When Selecting Jurors

By Ron Chapman

When selecting a jury, it is very important that a lawyer learn which potential jurors have leadership responsibilities at their jobs because such jurors frequently become leaders during jury deliberations.  If those jury leaders then decide to vote against the lawyer's case and are able to persuade other jurors to vote the same way, the verdict will almost inevitably go against the lawyer.In her book entitled "Reading People," jury consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius echoes this sentiment when she writes that "when we select jurors, one of the most important questions we ask is whether they are supervisors at work and, if so, how many people report to them.  People who spend much of their time in a position of control and responsibility over others typically take those workplace attitudes home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on January 20, 2008 (boomark / email).