Hi everyone. It's Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. I had to do this bonus episode because I just got my hands on the jury questionnaire in the Karen Reed trial. I'm recording this on Monday night,

very late at night on the 31st of March. You might be listening to this afterwards,

and they may have already started picking the jury, but I could not believe the questions.

I have been to this rodeo a lot. I have seen so many jury

questionnaires in my many decades. I hate to say four decades almost of doing this kind of

work, but this really, really surprised me. And then I thought through it and maybe not.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. But I'm going to read all the questions

for you. So like for anybody who gets pooled and then, you know, they have to fill out these

questionnaires before they even get a shot at Bordier, right? If you've ever done jury duty,

it's super boring. You go and you sit and you wait and then you have to fill these

questionnaires out and then if you get moved into a room and funneled into the courtroom

and get questioned, you have to be honest and you're under oath. And in this case,

this pool of jurors is going to be asked 38 questions on a questionnaire. It's long.

It's like two,

three. I got three full pages in front of me. And the questions are super pointed. And they cover

the gamut of everything that we've been through together when it comes to Karen Reed.

So normally like, you know, in a high profile case, you'll be asked, oh, have you seen media

on this?

And what kind of media have you consumed and have you formed an opinion?

But this questionnaire has so many more areas that it covers.

It does the usual, like, can you be fair and impartial and a couple of pro forma boiler

plate kind of

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