Every now and then, there is a trial at which an attorney takes an inordinate amount of time to question witnesses and a judge permits the attorney to take as much time as he or she wants. The effect on the litigants, the jury, the adversary attorney, the legal system and society can be deleterious.
The first question is whether such a phenomenon skews the jury pool. An argument could be made that the jury pool is being skewed by a long trial and is not a representative slice of the relevant community or as it is called “a jury of one’s peers.”
