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What personal questions are allowed in voir dire?

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What personal questions are allowed in voir dire?

Iloilo Jones (Executive Director of Fully Informed Jury Association) gives expert video advice on: Can I be kicked off a jury?; What personal questions are allowed in voir dire?; Why is my personal information released before the trial? and more...

In a voir dire, they're going to ask questions about your educational background, your age and personal questions about your personal history to see whether or not they think you have had any life experiences that are going to bias you one way or the other to be on the jury for the case to which you may be assigned. If you're in a big jury pool, you may be considered for more than one case, so they may ask you a variety of questions because they don't want you to be biased or they may want you to be biased one way or the other, depending upon who's asking the questions. Or they don't want you to be, again, depending upon who's asking the questions. It's difficult to say what kind of questions they'll ask you in a voir dire, because you don't know what kind of case you're going to be assigned to yet, probably.

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