Patent ID: 7284985

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of conducting a jury selection training exercise for a user based on mock trial data, the method comprising: presenting juror data for an initial pool of potential jurors on a computer display; providing juror questionnaire response data for members of the initial pool on the computer display, the questionnaire including at least one question typical of a venire during an actual trial; allowing the user to strike members of the initial pool for cause using a computer input device; allowing the user to make up to a predetermined permitted number of peremptory strikes of members of the initial pool using the computer input device, the predetermined permitted number of peremptory strikes corresponding to a maximum number of peremptory strikes permitted at the actual trial; assembling, through computer processing, a probable jury comprising members of the initial pool not struck for cause and not struck using a peremptory strike; assembling, through computer processing, a stricken jury comprising members of the initial pool struck for cause or struck using a peremptory strike; presenting jury deliberation results to the user on the computer display, the deliberation results comprising a decision made by each juror of the probable jury and each juror of the stricken jury.