The New Yorker: If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team wanted to - TopicsExpress



          

The New Yorker: If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team wanted to prove that seating an impartial jury in Massachusetts was an impossible task, it could rest its case now. Over four days, the federal judge George O’Toole has interviewed more than three dozen potential jurors who were not eliminated after filling out a written questionnaire, and only a few have emerged as both apparently impartial and open to the possibility of voting for the death penalty, which they must be in order to be chosen to serve. The elimination process is not public until it’s over, but two things are clear: the selection process is behind schedule, and the court may have to take a flexible approach to the standards of impartiality in order to seat a jury.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:41:00 +0000

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