Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires

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This companion book to Mastering Voir Dire: Gain An Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, 4th Edition (2018) educates the reader on how to create and use supplemental juror questionnaires. As one of the nations most experienced trial consultants, Dr. Frederick provides a valuable guide to understanding, creating, and more effectively utilizing supplemental juror questionnaires.
Topics covered include:

Basic components of supplemental questionnaires
Methods for using these questionnaires
Benefits in using supplemental questionnaires
Designing questionnaires, including the benefits of different question formats
Tips for phrasing questions
Tips for designing the overall questionnaire
Maximizing the utility of restricted-length questionnaires

After exploring the fundamentals of sound questionnaire design and implementation, this book provides 22 supplemental juror questionnaires from a variety of criminal and civil trials used across the country. In the criminal area, these trials include Colorado v. James Eagan Holmes (Capital murder-Aurora theater shooting), U.S. v. Conrad Black (fraud), Ohio v. Raymond Tensing (Murder-police shooting), U.S. v. William Baroni Jr. and Bridget Anne Kelly (Public corruption-Bridgegate scandal), U.S. v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Boston Marathon bombing), Colorado v. Kobe Bryant (sexual
assault/rape), and U.S. v. Maj. Nidal Hasan (Capital court-martial, Fort Hood shooting), among others.Supplemental juror questionnaires from civil trials include In re Visa Check/Mastermoney Antitrust Litigation (Antitrust), Earl Washington Jr. v. Kenneth Buraker et al. (Violation of civil rights), In re Exxon Valdez (Environmental damage from oil spill), i4i LP v. Microsoft Corporation (Patent), Texas v. American Tobacco Company et al. (Tobacco product liability), and David Mueller v. Taylor Swift et al. (Tortious interference with a contract/assault and battery), among others.

Praise for Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires

Kudos to Dr. Jeffrey Frederick for this companion book to his Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection, 4th edition. Hes assembled the most comprehensive collection of Supplemental Juror Questionnaires to date. Its not only useful for those who want to learn how to fashion the best questionnaire possible for their case, its also fascinating to look at the various approaches that have been used over the years. . . . Dr. Fredericks insights about how to write a good Supplemental Questionnaire are, as always, thoughtful and to the point. In fact, most of the authors of these questionnaires (and the judges who ultimately approved the questionnaires) would have done well to follow his suggestions.
-Diane Wiley, President, National Jury Project/NJP Litigation Consulting//Midwest. Co-editor Jurywork: Systematic Techniques.

[This book] is a must have resource for lawyers skilled in the art of persuasion and for the less experienced trial lawyer looking for help in preparing to conduct a successful voir dire. Frederick takes the reader through the process of developing questions and explains how the design of the questionnaire can set jurors expectations and prepare them to disclose information and express their viewpoints during voir dire. The book is a compendium of juror questionnaires developed and successfully used by criminal and civil trial lawyers throughout the country. It is an essential tool for lawyers seeking to identify potential jurors who harbor critical biases and prejudices against their clients and keep them off the jury.
-Nina J. Ginsberg, criminal defense attorney, DiMuroGinsberg, PC, Alexandria, Virginia

Author Bio

Dr. Jeffrey T. Frederick, President, Jeffrey Frederick Trial Consulting Services, LLC. Dr. Frederick has been involved in jury selection and jury research since 1975. He received his MS (1979) and Ph.D. (1980) in Social Psychology from North Carolina State University. He has assisted the Department of Justice, Office of Independent Counsel, United States Attorneys Offices, and state prosecutors and has assisted criminal defense attorneys in both civilian courts and courts-martial. He has assisted attorneys for plaintiffs and defendants in the civil area, including attorneys general and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. In addition to personally assisting in hundreds of cases, he has written extensively on the topic of jury trials and trial advocacy, including three key books in the area, Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, 4th Edition (2018), Mastering Voir Dire: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires (2018), and The Psychology of the American Jury (1987), as well as numerous articles on the jury-related topics, including Chapter 15: Online Jury Selection, The Online Courtroom: The Future of Remote Video in the Litigation Process (2022). Dr. Frederick is a frequent speaker on juries and jury issues. He has spoken at programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, American Law Institute/American Bar Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychology/Law Society, American Society of Trial Consultants, Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National District Attorneys Association, and numerous state civil and criminal bar associations and governmental programs. He teaches U.S. Tort Law as part of the Anglo-American Law Program at the Law School of the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. For more information, see Jeffrey Frederick Trial Consulting Services, LLC (jftcs.com). He can be reached by email at jfrederick@jftcs.com, or by phone at (434) 249-7330. August 2022.