Abstract
When COVID-19 first disrupted jury trials in March 2020, most commentators anticipated that state and federal courts would return to business as usual shortly after an effective vaccine became widely available—an expectation that proved to be wildly optimistic as two years later the Omicron variant produced the highest rates of infection yet. It is still not clear when state and federal courts will resume “normal operations,” but when they do, trial attorneys may encounter changes in jury operations and jury trials that were introduced over the past two years. Smaller jury panels, more diverse jury pools, constraints on attorneys’ use of peremptory challenges, and civil-justice reforms are some of the changes that are most likely to persist.
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Publication Information
98 Advocate 38-41 (2022)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula, "Getting Back to “Normal”: Jury Trials in the Post-COVID Era" (2022). Faculty Publications. 2303.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2303