Books

Dr. Frederick has written three key books in the area of jury selection and jury psychology. Two of these books, Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, Fourth Edition and Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires, are currently or have been best sellers for the American Bar Association.

 
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Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection:

Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury

- Fourth Edition -

By Jeffrey T Frederick

This is a valuable guide to help understand effective voir dire and jury selection strategies, and then to adapt these strategies to the unique circumstances faced in trial jurisdictions.

 

Praise for Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection, Fourth Edition

Mastering Voir Dire is by far the most complete and effective jury selection guide available.... It has simple, short examples from real trials tied to hard-core research and common sense.... Thanks for Mastering Voir Dire.”

━  Morris Dees, Founder and Chief Trial Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center   
 
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Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires

By Jeffrey T Frederick

This book is a companion book to Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting Your Jury, Fourth Edition.

 

Praise for Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Supplemental Juror Questionnaires

“[This book] is a must have resource for lawyers skilled in the art of persuasion and for the less experienced trial lawyer looking for help in preparing to conduct a successful voir dire.  Frederick takes the reader through the process of developing questions and explains how the design of the questionnaire can set jurors’ expectations and prepare them to disclose information and express their viewpoints during voir dire.  The book is a compendium of juror questionnaires developed and successfully used by criminal and civil trial lawyers throughout the country.  It is an essential tool for lawyers seeking to identify potential jurors who harbor critical biases and prejudices against their clients and keep them off the jury.”

 ━  Nina J. Ginsberg, criminal defense attorney, DiMuroGinsberg, PC, Alexandria, Virginia 
 
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The Psychology of the American Jury (Michie Co., 1987)

By Jeffrey T Frederick

Learn the techniques the experts use - and WHY they use them.

The Psychology of the American Jury discusses the tough issues you face in jury trials and offers practical solutions. Among the issues discussed are the use of surveys in jury selection and change of venue motions, in-court approaches to jury selection, nonverbal behavior of jurors, and voir dire procedures. It contains a comprehensive treatment of persuasion in the courtroom and a general review of psychological research on juries. Research techniques designed to help pretest cases before trial, e.g., focus groups and trial simulations, are considered along with trial techniques, i.e., trial observation and shadow juries, designed to assess how the actual trial is evolving in the eyes of jurors.

(no longer in publication)