Five days. That's how long it took to select a jury in the Anthony Garcia quadruple murder trial.

Now I want you to understand something about jury selection in a death penalty case.

Because what we went through that week was nothing like what you see on television.

On TV, jury selection takes five minutes, a few questions about fairness, a couple of

dramatic objections, and suddenly, you've got 12 people ready to decide someone's fate.

In reality, selecting a death qualified jury is one of the most grueling,

psychologically exhausting processes in the American legal system. And here's why. Under the Sixth Amendment

and the Supreme Court's ruling in Witherspoon v. Illinois, every juror in a capital case must be individually questioned

about their views on the death penalty. This is called death qualification. A juror can serve only

if they are willing to consider all sentencing options, both death and life imprisonment. If a juror is categorically opposed to capital punishment

and says that they could never vote for it under any circumstances, well, then they're struck for

cause. Conversely, if a juror says that they would automatically impose death for any murder

conviction and wouldn't even consider mitigating circumstances,

well, then they're also struck for a cause. You need jurors who can keep an open mind in both directions.

What this means in practice is that instead of questioning jurors as a group and making quick decisions, the attorney and the

judge have to conduct extensive individual questioning of every single potential juror.

And in a case like Garcia, a case involving the brutal murders of four people, including an 11-year-old

boy, in a community that had been saturated

with media coverage for three years, the pool of qualified jurors was going to be small.

We started on Monday, September 26th of 2016, with 84 potential jurors summoned to the Douglas

County Courthouse.

84 people whose names had been randomly selected from voter registration and driver's license

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