Lem Jukes

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  • There are more protected classes than economic status and race at the federal level and some states have expanded classes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group?wprov=sfti1#United_States

    You cannot be removed from a jury ‘for no reason’. A judge may remove you from a jury if they believe a juror has bias or contact toward or with either the defendant. Or if the judge believes you are unwilling or incapable of following the law.

    You can however be not selected for a jury via two means, a challenge for cause or a peremptory challenge. A challenge for cause is when the lawyer believes you have a genuine prejudice or bias against the defendant. A peremptory challenge is where lawyers can basically ask a judge to remove any juror from the selection pool, they only get a set number of these and they can’t violate the protected classes mentioned earlier, but they can be muuuuuch more loosely applied during proceedings.

    IANAL I just spent a few min researching and watched that one cgp video about jury nullification a while back. And voir dire is fun to say.