How to Use voir dire in a Sentence

voir dire

noun
  • But to do a full and robust voir dire takes a long time.
    — The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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, 20 Apr. 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
  • What is voir dire and why is this happening without the jury?
    — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the defense claim that the juror lied during voir dire may disturb the appellate court.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Feb. 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Judges often limit and restrict lawyer questioning during voir dire.
    — The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Court started Wednesday with a voir dire hearing for Mutlu before the jury entered.
    — Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, the day was dedicated to voir dire of upcoming witnesses.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 18 June 2024
  • Ripken said that matters regarding the voir dire questions will be addressed in hearing scheduled for Monday.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The practice in federal court has been to try to pick a jury first, and only if the voir dire process fails to produce a fair jury does the judge then consider the change of venue motion.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The voir dire hearings are expected to continue on Tuesday, with four more witnesses scheduled to appear.
    — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Testimony is set to resume Wednesday with the voir dire of Gem Mutlu, Ana's former boss and friend.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Andrew Fone, FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Concentrated jury questioning by the attorneys, a process known as voir dire, began Thursday morning.
    — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020

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