Attachment B
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
DIVISION
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VOIR DIRE
The court will ask the following questions to each member of the venire:
1. Community/City where you presently live
a. Other communities where you have lived in the past
5 years
2. Present Employment
a. Name of Employer
b. Where
c. What Duties
d. How Long Employed
e. Other Employment in the last 5 years
3. Education
4. Marital Status
a. Spouse’s Employment
b. What Duties
c. How long
5. Adult Children within Northern District
a. Employment
b. Spouse/Spouse’s Employment
6. Your experience as a PARTY in a court case
a. Defendant/Plaintiff
b. Jury Verdict
7. Your experience as a WITNESS in a court case
a. Type of case
b. Defense/Plaintiff
c. Year
8. Your experience as a JUROR in a court case
a. Type of case
b. Defense/Plaintiff
c. Year
9. Typical source of news
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10. Do you have a bumper sticker on your car?
a. Describe bumper sticker
11. Are you a member of an organization or club that is not
affiliated with your employment/profession?
a. Name of organization
b. Leadership roles
12. Anyone related by blood or marriage to the Plaintiff? (If
Corp., is anyone or their immediate family an officer,
director, stockholder, or employee of Plaintiff?)
a. Does anyone know the Plaintiff?
13. Anyone related by blood or marriage to the Plaintiff’s
counsel? (If Corp., is anyone or their immediate family an
officer, director, stockholder, or employee of Plaintiff’s
counsel?)
a. Does anyone know Plaintiff’s counsel?
14. Anyone related by blood or marriage to the Defendant? (If
Corp., is anyone or their immediate family an officer,
director, stockholder, or employee of Defendant?)
a. Does anyone know the Defendant?
15. Anyone related by blood or marriage to Defendant’s
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counsel? (If Corp., is anyone or their immediate family an
officer, director, stockholder, or employee of Defendant’s
counsel?)
a. Does anyone know Defendant’s counsel?
16. Have you or anyone in your immediate family been
represented by any of the attorneys here?
17. Have you or anyone in your immediate family retained
[the attorneys’ law firms]?
18. Anyone who knows me?
19. Is there anyone here who knows of any reason why you
cannot be fair to both sides?
20. [insert questions any party wishes the court to ask and to
which there are no objections]
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