Jury selection is a typical legal exercise that often requires more efforts and ideas than usual. The job of a team of Jury is always considered very sensitive and is always held in high esteem, and thus, the reasons why people selected into a plenipotentiary team of jury undergo judicial and core examinations. The Jury consists of several ordinary people or civilians as legally called (mostly twelve in number) who are fit are capable enough to invent and put to work their common senses to the case of determining the level of guilt or innocence of a person who has been accused of a either a crime or any related offence.
Juries work in hand with the courts and also receive guidance from the court of law in which they have been attached. The team encompasses of mostly a dozen people, in order to aid smoothness and unbiased pronunciation in the course of discharging their various activities. Inasmuch as the judgement as put forward by a jury would still undergo criticism by the highest order of the court; the jury always ensure that it gathers accurate facts with regard to several pointing factors. The society, the nature and social characters of the accused, the generally considered testifications from the neighborhood etc.
When a case often arise in a court, a jury is formed to investigate secretly- in the case where no jury is present. Then a team has to be formed as a jury; below are some of the things that the lawyers observe when making the jury selection
The Background of an Intended Jury: Before a person can be selected into a team of Jury, the background of such a person has to be researched and evaluated from several angles. This is to ensure that the person is within the community or area where the crime, uncertainty or occurrence that led to the arrest and conviction of an offense-factor took place.
Status in the Case: Beyond any doubt, a jury outcome can be biased if it was not selected properly or with an open eye. In situation where a jury is picked from amongst the relation or friends of a convicted and tried. Results wouldn’t be in favor of justice, since they may decide to pass judgement in favor of their friend. So the relationship and status of an intended jury should be carefully examined.
The Educational Background: Of course, anyone standing competence for a jury membership should have undergone the education education process. Jurors might not necessarily be big-time scholars or lawyers, but are scholars who understands facts, has common sense, and are able to read and write.