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Today is jury selection, so they’ll be asking a lot of potential jurors about all the ways they could be biased or have a conflict of interest.
We should do this with judges.
It’s called voir dire, and it’s more complicated than that. For a case this size the counsels will likely have done focus groups to see what traits, etc. tend to test well against the client. So yes, they are theoretically screening for biases, but the selection is ultimately up to both councils, so it’s a balancing act of stacking the jury in your favor.