Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires

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 nation's 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.