IMPLEMENTING NEW YORK'S CIVIL VOIR DIRE LAW AND RULES

If you are asked a question that you would rather answer in private, or if
there is anything you would like to explain to the attorneys in private,
please do not hesitate to indicate that you would prefer privacy.
Some of you will be excused from this panel as a result of your answers to
these general questions. If you are excused, you will return to the jury
assembly room where the jury commissioner’s staff will give you further
instructions.
When jury selection is completed, the trial may proceed immediately or you
may be asked to return for the start of the trial on another day. If you are
excused from sitting on this case, please don’t take this as a personal
comment on you or your ability to be fair. It is often true that a particular
juror is not well qualified to sit on a particular case but she or he would be
well qualified to sit as a juror on a different case.
I want to thank all of you for your patience and cooperation. I will be leaving
the room at this point. I will be available to consult with the attorneys at any
time to make a decision as to whether or not any particular juror should be
excused from sitting on this trial. With that, I will ask [Plaintiff’s Attorney] to
make a short statement describing what this case is about from the
plaintiff’s point of view.
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