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Jersey Devil

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14. In federal court the judge asks the jurors questions, not the lawyers

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 31, 2018, 02:31 PM

Jul 2018

The lawyers can submit questions to the judge and request that he ask them, but they do no ask questions directly to the jurors. Thus, no grandstanding and no fooling around and it goes pretty quickly. NJ, where I practiced law, does the same thing.

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