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Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

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Now, here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity.

This week we're going to talk about why it's so important to pick the right jury before

you make a case for anything, including the case for Christianity.

So if you're interested in making the case for what you believe,

or just interested in sharing the gospel,

it's really important to develop this skill set.

As a matter of fact, people will often ask me,

what has made you successful in prosecuting criminal cases?

Now, we've done a bunch of these over the years,

and I've had a great team to work with, great fellow investigators that I've worked with, and certainly great prosecutor that I've worked with over the years.

So in some ways, it's not all about any one of us.

It's how we operate together as a team.

But when you look at how and why we've been successful over the years, it's, you know, cases aren't usually won, in my experience anyway, at opening statements.

They're not one really during the presentation of evidence for the course of the trial.

They're not really one at closing argument.

Sadly, and interestingly, cases are usually one at jury selection.

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