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🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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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.
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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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