Resources

Practical guides on jury selection for trial prosecutors — from voir dire prep to tracking strikes while the panel is moving fast.

Guide

Voir Dire Checklist

Panel prep, courtroom setup, questioning strategy, strike decisions, and the post-selection record — organized by phase.

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Guide

How to Track Jury Strikes

Tracking peremptory strikes, cause challenges, and jury composition during voir dire — and why paper strike sheets break down in fast-moving trials.

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Comparison

Jury Selection App vs. Legal Pad

A side-by-side look at what changes when an office moves from legal pads to a digital jury selection workflow.

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Comparison

The Best Jury Selection Apps

A working prosecutor's field guide to the jury selection apps on the market — what each is built for, and which fits an office that tries cases constantly.

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Comparison

A JuryBox or JuryBoard Alternative

If your office is weighing JuryBox or JuryBoard, here's the question those tools don't answer — and why a prosecution-first alternative may fit better.

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Overview

Jury Selection Software

Digital seating charts, strike tracking, and real-time voir dire collaboration — why prosecutor's offices are replacing the legal pad.

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Guide

Batson Challenges & the Record

Why the prosecutors who survive Batson challenges documented their reasons at the moment of the strike — and what a defensible record looks like.

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Guide

Training New Prosecutors on Voir Dire

Law school doesn't teach jury selection. How supervisors turn voir dire from an improvised art into an office method new deputies can learn.

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Guide

Picking a Jury for a Two-Day Trial

Most jury trials are short. Jury selection for the short trial is its own discipline — and almost nobody writes about it.

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Explainer

How Jury Selection Systems Differ

Strike-panel, struck-jury, stand-and-strike — the three families of jury selection systems, and why the differences change your strike strategy.

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