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16 Shots

Ep 9: A Jury Of His Peers

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The 12 jurors and 5 alternates have been picked to decide Jason Van Dyke’s fate. With only one black juror, the racial makeup is controversial. We explore how the jurors were picked -- and what we know about them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Circuit Court of Cook County, one of the largest unified court

0:08.4

systems in the world. In the United States, the right to a trial by jury is guaranteed by your service you will be participating

0:18.0

in a 200-year-old jury system that is unlike any other. From W.B.E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune,

0:30.0

this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacanne McDonald I'm Jen White and we have a jury

0:38.4

We're here today to see if this is a bench trial

0:41.9

Wasn't a decision?

0:44.1

Yes, Judge.

0:45.2

As you know, we have a pending change of venue motion.

0:48.0

Listen, I let me know, I understand, of course I know.

0:50.9

Without waiving any of those arguments that we've made, the defendant will opt for a jury trial.

0:58.0

Yesterday, the final juror plus five alternates were selected.

1:02.0

Judge Gawn hasn't ruled yet on a defense

1:04.5

request to move the trial out of Cook County, but he did rule on another motion.

1:09.0

The defense asked the judge to throw out the whole jury that's been selected because they

1:14.1

claim those jurors may have been intimidated by the protesters outside the

1:17.8

courthouse. Ghan rejected that motion today.

1:20.3

We had a very thorough voir dire examination of the potential jurors and a lot were struck,

1:26.7

a lot were, but the ones that were impaneled, did not have that fear, were not intimidated.

1:33.0

So we now know the 12 jurors who will decide if Officer Jason Van Dyke committed murder

1:38.0

when he shot Lequonne McDonald 16 times in 2014.

1:42.0

W.B.E. Z. Shannon Heffernan reported on the jury selection process this week

1:46.5

and she's at the latent criminal courthouse now. Shannon even after almost a week

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