They call it the "magic question."
When jury selection opens Monday in the Bill
Cosby trial, the judge will likely ask the men and women in the pool
whether they can set aside anything they've heard about the case and
render a verdict based only on the evidence.
The problem, according to one legal scholar, is that people are terrible at judging whether they can be impartial.
"Jurors almost always say yes," said
Christopher Robertson, associate dean at Rogers College of Law at the
University of Arizona. "It's an impossible question to ask. It's
scientifically junk."
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