The New Jersey Supreme Court launched a pilot project permitting attorney-conducted voir dire as part of a wide range of reforms designed to eradicate bias in the jury-selection process.

Also announced Wednesday are plans to ask legislators to increase pay for jurors, and to restore juror eligibility to persons with prior criminal convictions who have completed their sentences, as ways to broaden the pool of prospective jurors. And the number of peremptory challenges to jurors is decreased significantly under the court’s announcement.

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