How to Use voir dire in a Sentence

voir dire

noun
Definition of voir direnext
  • The state argued in that case that the voir dire process worked well.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In court, each person is sworn in and then questioned one by one in a process known as voir dire.
    — Eric Levenson and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
  • In court, each person was sworn in and then questioned one-by-one in a process known as voir dire.
    — Eric Levenson and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
  • About 60 people survived the screening process and from that pool, 18 were put into the jury box for open court voir dire.
    — Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The judge did all the voir dire — or questioning — and gave both sides only 15 minutes to ask questions during the whole process.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But the defense claim that the juror lied during voir dire may disturb the appellate court.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Feb. 2020
  • This gives short shrift to the integrity of jurors themselves and to the voir dire process that Trump’s legal team can use to weed out biased jurors.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Holmes was present in the courtroom alongside her team of lawyers, who watched and took notes as potential jurors entered for voir dire.
    — Taylor Dunn, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The process for thinning out a pool of potential jurors to an actual jury is called voir dire.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2021
  • After filling out a questionnaire, jurors may be questioned in court in more detail in a process known as voir dire.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • By early afternoon, eight jurors had been seated in a slow-moving process known as voir dire.
    — Ashraf Khalil, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • The jury selection consisted of just one day of voir dire in court without the use of background questionnaires.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The under-oath examination of the potential jurors, known as voir dire, shows Stone’s lawyers did not make a motion to strike Hart from the pool when given the chance.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The court also noted that any potential for juror bias could be solved in the voir dire process and by an instruction from the court for the jurors not to read out of court commentary.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2023
  • During voir dire in the state case against Chauvin, attorneys, as well as the judge, questioned potential jurors.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The voir dire of potential jurors would be an unprecedented spectacle; so would the mug shot.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Others do initial screening online and voir dire in person.
    — Eric Scigliano, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Starting Monday, some prospective jurors who completed the questionnaire will be questioned one-by-one in court in a process known as voir dire.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
  • In Maxwell’s case, voir dire spanned several days, and dozens of jurors were released from service based on their questionnaire answers.
    — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Ripken said that matters regarding the voir dire questions will be addressed in hearing scheduled for Monday.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The judge, Justice Julian Goose, empaneled a jury on the first day, much speedier than the spirited haggling of the American voir dire process, which is meant to weed out bias among jurors.
    — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Banfield covered the trial while living in Orlando and recalls being perturbed by the jury selection and voir dire.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • On Monday, the defense and the prosecution began to question the potential jurors in open court — in what is called voir dire — after an initial round of screening from Judge Charlaine Olmedo.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In Prince George’s County, for instance, jurors summoned for civil cases will participate in the voir dire process on their electronic devices at home.
    — Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Suddenly, packed jury waiting rooms, crowded hallways and shoulder-to-shoulder voir dire questioning didn’t seem so smart.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Potential jurors will be ushered in 50 at a time, and voir dire or jury examination will be held in three separate sessions.
    — Taylor Dunn, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Five panels ended up being sent to courtrooms, Diaz said, with two ultimately going on to jury selection, known as voir dire.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • More probing questions like the one the judge asked should have been reserved for the voir dire phase of jury selection, when prosecutors and defense attorneys are given the chance to grill jury candidates on their answers.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2022
  • The filing that suggests Hogan will testify is a proposal by prosecutors of questions for voir dire, the preliminary examination of jurors by the judge and lawyers to winnow the pool.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The process of jury selection, sometimes called voir dire, which includes hundreds of potential jurors, had not begun by midday Tuesday as a result of the near-constant interruptions from Brooks.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022

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