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Publication details [#26952]

Shuy, Roger W. 1995. How a judge's voir dire can teach a jury what to say. Discourse & Society 6 (2) : 207–222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | influencing | interview | judgment | question-answer sequence

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of a judge's interviews of prospective jurors -so called VOIR DIRE- in a US criminal trial, demonstrates that the judge's questions can influence and change the jurors' positions on death penalty and thus be prejudicial to the defendant.