Ep 8: Building A Jury

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WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Judge Vincent Gaughan began to interview potential jurors on Monday. The first five were selected. We discuss what the prosecution and defense are looking for.

NOTE: A previous version of this episode contained an error. It was about the defense argument for excluding an African American woman from the jury. What the defense attorney actually stated as the reasons for excluding her were that she lives in the same part of the city that Laquan McDonald did, has children roughly the same age as he was, and she allegedly would shift the burden of proof from the prosecutors to the defendant. We regret the error.

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0:00.0	From W be EZ Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of
0:08.5	Lacan McDonald. I'm Jen White. Five jurors have so far been selected to help decide the fate of officer
0:15.4	Jason Van Dyke. The court is looking for a total of 16, 12 jurors, and four alternates.
0:22.2	Today was the first day that the judge asked
0:24.4	potential jurors questions face to face. Reporters Shannon Heffernan and
0:28.9	Chip Mitchell are in the criminal courthouse where Judge Vincent Gaughan has been questioning potential jurors
0:34.2	about whether they could be fair.
0:36.3	And Chip, I want to start with you.
0:37.7	You were in the courtroom during some of the questioning.
0:40.0	How did it work?
0:41.0	Yeah, just this afternoon.
0:44.0	We're coming off of last week where all of the, all 200 of the prospective jurors
0:49.6	filled out these very long written questionnaires, more than a hundred questions.
0:55.4	So today was the first day where the judge and the attorneys questioned each individual
1:00.6	prospective juror separately face to face.
1:03.8	This happened behind closed doors in back of the courtroom in the jury room,
1:08.2	the regular jury room right next to the judge's chambers.
1:11.1	It's a small room with a table. There are doors to the bathrooms, a water cooler.
1:15.4	This questioning, it's called voir dire. It includes the judge, the prospective
1:21.5	juror sits at the head of the table. Officer Van Dyke is near the other The judge is also allowing in this process in this little room three journalists at a time to be in there so I was one of those for a session this afternoon.
1:34.3	And then also two or three members of the public get to observe the questioning.
1:38.0	Were the attorneys for either the prosecution or defense also allowed to ask questions or just the judge?
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