April 4, 2024:

• 31 Prospective jurors were called in. broken up into smaller groups for the voir dire process.
• Two jurors have been excused without voir dire.

GROUP 1

• Juror 716 (female)

• Juror 722 (female)

• Juror 732 (female)

• Juror 751 (female)

• Juror 776 (Excused - bias)

• Juror 779 (male)

• Juror 834 (male)

• Juror 874 (female)

• Juror 997 (male)

• Juror 1014 (female)

• Juror 1024 (male)

• Juror 1078 (female)

• Juror 1080 (Excused - hardship/bias)

• Juror 1093 (female)

• Juror 1100 (male)

EXCUSED JURORS

• Juror 834: Challenge for Cause - Prosecution. (Hardship)
  • [bad audio] sole source of income.
    • Juror is excused.
• Juror 874: Challenge for Cause - Prosecution. (Hardship)
  • Would be going without income except for one week. Would be a financial hardship. [bad audio] Job would be held but she would only be paid for 40 hours.
    • Juror is excused.
• Juror 1014: Challenge for Cause - Prosecution. (Hardship)
  • [bad audio] Working two jobs. In school full time. A ten week trial would make it difficult for her to meet deadline and also would cause issues at her job. Would basically lose the semester. Ends in late April.
    • Juror is excused
• Juror 1024: Challenge for Cause - Prosecution. (Hardship)
  • Has a family trip in late May. Parents have been planning it for a while. Starts the 25th. Already booked planes and hotels. His kids would go with his wife and parents. [bad audio] Would be a challenge because it’s a preplanned trip. No financial hardship. [bad audio] investments. It’s just the trip himself. Rescheduling it would be rather challenging.
  • Has an 11 and 12 year old. Family trip that involves the grandparents as well. Right at the end of the school year. Any parent would be nervous about their children traveling.
  • This juror keeps saying “if the trial ends by then, it’s fine” and “if it’s before the trip, it’s fine”.
  • Going to Boston. Two children in a large city.
  • The issue is if the kids go on the trip without him. It’s a busy city. They have to navigate with his wife and their grandparents. Any father would be concerned.
    • Juror is excused.
• Juror 1093: Challenge for Cause - Prosecution. (Hardship)
  • Primary provider for two young children in homeschool (6 and 8). The timeframe was stated 8 weeks and she assumed it would be starting sooner. She can put her kids into public school to cover that but ten weeks or more would definitely be a difficulty for them for childcare. She takes care of the kids and the farm.
  • Has 5 acres, raises sheep and chickens. They will have baby lambs soon. Grow a lot of their own food.
    • Juror is excused.

Group Voir Dire

Brutally Honest

• Juror 1100: [called upon by Attorney Blake] [bad audio] be truthful in all aspects. You need to be not hiding. As difficult as it may be you need to be able to articulate what occurs.
• Juror 751: [called upon by Attorney Blake] [bad audio]

Probably/Hopefully/For Sure