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| Case Mohr, student prosecutor (at podium), addresses the jury. Student co-counsel sit at tables in foreground and in background. |
Dr. Cory Lepage's JUST 374 class, The Courts, recently
participated in a mock jury selection. Students playing the role of
prosecutors and defense attorneys practiced voir dire - asking questions
of potential jurors - during class. Students from JUST 110 Intro to Justice classes taught by
Dr. Allan Barnes,
Dr. Troy Payne, and
Dr. Lepage volunteered to play the role of
prospective jurors.
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| A prospective student juror answers a question during voir dire. |
Students who were playing the role of lawyers were given an actual criminal case that had been decided in Alaska and had to prepare legally
permissible questions to ask of each juror. In this class exercise to
demonstrate the voir dire process, attorneys for the prosecution and
defense questioned potential jurors, and could request that a potential
juror be removed from consideration as a juror for the case. The
questioning of the potential jurors continued until the required number
of jurors was selected. Dr. Lepage acted as the
judge in the mock jury selection.
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| Dr. Lepage explains the process of voir dire. |
