What is a jury pool? I realized this 5 minutes after we got off the phone that I had no idea what that meant
2007-08-17 01:32:04 · 5 answers · asked by cheezelord 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's the group of people that are selected for jury duty on your case... if you're in a rural county, for example, you will get mainly retirees or other county residents that are eligible for jury duty. All white, middle class county, all white, middle class jury, because that's who lives there.
A federal jury pool calls for a wider net of people, as they can issue a jury summons to a bigger geographic area. So you can have an ethnic mix, for sure, and usually a wider economic base, they could go from lower class to millionaires.
2007-08-17 01:39:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A jury pool is the group of potential jurors that will be called in for jury duty. What your attorney means is that the area from which the federal jury pool will be selected contains those your attorney feels will be more sympathetic to your case as opposed to the jury pool in the county where the matter was originally being heard.
2007-08-17 11:36:04 · answer #2 · answered by Tara P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A jury pool is the group of people that the jury will be selected from.
2007-08-17 09:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jury pool is made up of the people who could be chosen to sit on your jury.
2007-08-17 08:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by Hockeyfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a trial, a jury has to be selected. The "pool" is the group of people who are summoned by the court for selection.
2007-08-17 08:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋