Criminal defense practitioners say that conducting voir dire in a closed-door setting can make the process of picking an impartial jury more efficient, but when the decision to bring jurors into chambers for questioning clashes with the First Amendment, the compromise should always be in favor of public access.
U.S. District Senior Judge Maurice B. Cohill Jr.. conceded that voir dire must be conducted in public Oct. 21, after newspapers including Pennsylvania Law Weekly joined in an emergency motion to open jury questioning in the trial of former Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce.
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