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By: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm – So your case is in, your jury is ready to start deliberating, and you feel pretty confident that at least the majority of your jurors favor your side of the case. Should you feel safe? Of course not, because the verdict isn’t in the hands of the majority as much as it is in

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Adapting to Jurors, Strategy, Voir Dire / ken.brodabahm / January 24, 2011

By: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm – Watching the Wizard of Oz recently with my three (and a half!)-year-old daughter, we came to the familiar scene of the fearless Toto interrupting the Wizard’s speech by pulling back the curtain on a man furiously working levers and wheels. When Dorothy and company ignore the instruction to “pay

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Pay Close Attention to the Big Mouths in Voir Dire

In Jury Selection, Pay All Kinds of Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain