What would stop a wealthy defendant from videotaping all jurors reporting for service and using facial recognition to identify and research them for purposes of advanced voir dire?
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nostr:npub1xpcqmx422lf6cm6nzup53vfsfvyz7pjfarwdklj3apxaggjtdqmqg03t05 That's essentially the plot of Runaway Jury,
I’m guessing a judge would stop it if they discovered it. They would find some legal argument.
At the end of the day it would be a waste of money. Depending on charges you typically have a number of jurors you can dismiss without cause. With cause is pretty narrowly defined. The attorneys have no control over which jurors are brought forward first. If there’s no just cause to dismiss a juror they are then questioned by the attorneys to see if the might be prejudiced in deciding the case. Either one may move to dismiss a juror based on their answers. But you can’t keep dismissing every juror.