• FOUNDATIONS


• 1. The Legal Context


• 2. Measuring Potential Predictors of Verdict


• 3. Empirical Foundations and Limits


• APPLICATION


• 4. Conducting Community Surveys


• 5. Report Writing


• 6. Consultation During Voir Dire


• Appendix A Sample Jury Selection Survey


• Appendix B Sample Jury Selection Report


• Appendix C Phone Survey to Support Change of Venue Motion and Jury Selection


• Appendix D Report Supporting a Change of Venue Motion


• Appendix E Memo Reporting Results of Jury Selection Analysis Based on Change of Venue Survey


• References


• Tests and Specialized Tools


• Cases and Statutes


• Key Terms


• Index


• About the Authors

Margaret Kovera is a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology-Law Society (APLS), the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She is a Past-President of APLS and regularly serves as a trial consultant and as an expert witness in cases involving eyewitness identification.
Brian L. Cutler is a Professor of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and Distinguished Member of the American Psychology-Law Society. He served as President of APLS and is Past Editor-in-Chief of Law and Human Behavior. He previously served as a trial consultant and continues to serve as an expert witness in cases involving eyewitness identification.

Jury selection is the process by which attorneys remove people from the jury pool whom they judge to be undesirable, presumably because they fear that the potential juror would be biased against their side. In this book, the authors review the law governing attorneys' decisions to remove potential jurors from jury service, including laws prohibiting the systematic removal of particular categories of people from the jury.