The Importance of Orientation Videos

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As recently as the 1980s, whole categories of citizens were exempted from service. As a result, juries were not necessarily very representative of the community. The orientation video is required to be shown to jurors before they serve. A judge will come and greet them; Judges make their own greetings.

“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors.

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