Understanding sexual violence:
Prosecuting adult rape and sexual assault cases
Tab 11: Voir Dire
Voir Dire Slides can be seen in .html or Power Point.
Directions: Please take five minutes to craft questions for the State v. Michael Cates voir dire. Assume your voir dire will be curtailed, so rank your own questions in order of importance. List your priority questions on the Individual Participants’ Worksheet. Then discuss your questions with your tablemates for ten minutes and agree on the group’s top three to five questions, again in rank order. These should be listed on the reporter’s Worksheet. The reporter will be the participant whose last name is closest to the letter A, who has not been a reporter for an earlier exercises. During the 30 minute report back each reporter will give the table’s #1 question. After some discussion, the reporter will go on to question #2. If there is time after discussion, we will go on to #3 and so forth.
Directions: Please take five minutes to craft questions for the State v. Michael Cates voir dire. Discuss your questions with your tablemates. During the 30-minute report back, the reporter will give the table’s # 1 question. If there is time after discussion, the presenter will go on to the next question, and so forth.
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Directions: The reporter is the person at the table whose first name begins with the letter A or the letter closest to it. As the reporter, please use this sheet to record the group’s top three to five questions in rank order. During the 10-minute table discussion the group should determine which voir dire question will be ordered as #1, 2, 3, and so forth. During the 30-minute report back the reporter will give the table’s # 1 question. If time permits, we will go on to # 2, and so forth.
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