Notes from the gallery

Notes on the rooms that decide.

Written from thirty-five years of courtroom and studio practice.

The law is ending the peremptory strike.

For fifty years, jury selection meant one skill: knowing who to remove. Washington constrained strikes, Arizona ended them outright, California followed. What's left is a different skill.

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Opinion 517 made your consultant's methodology your problem.

The ABA's July 2025 opinion put a diligence duty on the tools trial teams rely on. What it holds, how strike reform compounds it, and the four questions counsel now asks.

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