The Trick Question: Prosecutors’ Questions Answered, and Answers Questioned

The discussion of prosecutors’ pet jury selection question, the “One-Witness-Rule” question, continues. Prosecutor SC asks:

“People who would require more than one witness to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt (for reasons Biblical or pragmatic) are qualified to serve as jurors.”
Why? Why isn’t this scenario the same as having a juror who would require DNA [...]

The One-Witness Rule

One question that prosecutors in Harris County are overly fond of asking jurors is this:

If we only present one witness, but based on that witness’s testimony you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty, can you convict him?

The prosecutors then gleefully challenge, for cause, all of the jurors who say “no.”

It [...]