Jury Trials

Jury trials get their own dedicated chapter because the institutional machinery of voir dire, jury instruction, and verdict procedure differs meaningfully from bench and arbitration practice. The authors walk through voir dire as de-selection, attorney versus judge questioning regimes, challenges for cause and peremptories under constitutional doctrine, jury orientation, and the choreography of seating, oath, and preliminary instructions. AI tools are framed for tailored voir dire drafting, bias-eliciting questionnaires, and strike matrices that score answers consistently. The chapter suits a trial advocacy course covering jury-trial units, as well as voir dire and jury-selection seminars, giving professors a clear structure for a mock jury-selection process that exercises both doctrine and judgment.