Selection¶
The Selection tab is where the jury gets empaneled. It walks the qualified pool, records peremptory strikes from each side, and seats the final panel plus alternates.
Qualification (recording the judge's ruling of Qualify or Strike for cause on each juror) happens earlier in Oral Voir Dire. By the time you reach Selection, every juror in the main panel has already been qualified.
Panel status at a glance¶
The top of the Selection page displays usage bars for:
- Prosecution peremptories — used vs. available
- Defense peremptories — used vs. available
- Cause — cumulative count of strikes for cause recorded during Oral Voir Dire (read-only reference)
- Qualified Pool — how close the qualified count is to the worst-case target (jury + alternates + both sides' peremptories)
- Jury Seated — how many jurors have been seated vs. the configured jury size (including alternates)
The Jury Seated bar is green and visually distinct from the strike bars. The ✓ Seat button is automatically disabled once the jury is full, preventing accidental over-seating.
The three tables¶
- Qualified Pool
- Jurors the judge has ruled Qualify on, still available for peremptory challenge or seating. Each row shows the juror's seat number, name, a color-coded Score badge, and a ▼ Details toggle. Active (pre-qualification) jurors do not appear here — they live in Oral Voir Dire until the judge rules.
- Removed
- Jurors who left the pool — peremptory strikes by either side, strikes for cause, dismissals (including no-shows marked in Oral Voir Dire), and administrative excusals. Each row includes who removed them and when. Shown in a separate panel below; not hidden.
- Seated Jury
- Jurors who have been seated, displayed in order of seating.
Recording a decision¶
Each row in the Qualified Pool has action buttons directly in the table. Every button shows the current usage count (for example, ⚡ Defense 2/6) and is disabled automatically when the limit is reached:
| Button | Keyboard | Action |
|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Defense x/limit | ++d++ | Defense peremptory challenge |
| ⚡ Prosecution x/limit | ++p++ | Prosecution / Plaintiff peremptory challenge |
| ✓ Seat | ++s++ | Seat this juror on the jury |
Keyboard shortcuts are active only when a row is expanded (see below); the shortcut badge appears next to each button on the expanded row as a reminder. After any action — whether by click or keyboard — the view automatically advances to the next juror.
Strike for cause lives in Oral Voir Dire
The Strike for cause action is recorded on the Oral Voir Dire workbench as the judge rules, not here. The Cause usage bar above the pool is a read-only count of those strikes so you can see how many happened during qualification. If you need to undo a cause strike, the affected juror appears under the Removed panel with an ↩ Undo action.
All actions are logged in the case file's mutation history.
Bulk actions on the Qualified Pool¶
Tick the checkbox at the start of any row (or use Select unflagged / Select unrated in the toolbar) to enable a bulk action bar:
- 👍 Rate Favorable — apply your personal favorability rating to every selected juror
- ✕ Dismiss… — open the reason-tagged dismissal modal for the selected jurors (useful for the "dismiss the rest as not needed" sweep once the jury is seated)
- Clear — clear the selection
Bulk Qualify is in Oral Voir Dire
The Selection tab used to expose a bulk Qualify action. Qualification is a per-juror P2 decision now and lives on the Oral Voir Dire workbench. Selecting many jurors in the Qualified Pool doesn't need a Qualify button — they're already qualified.
Juror detail panel¶
Click anywhere on a juror row (or press ++arrow-right++ to open the first) to expand an inline detail panel. For jurors still in the Qualified Pool the panel includes:
Navigation bar — shows the juror's name and seat with ◀ Prev / Next ▶ buttons to move between jurors without closing the panel.
Intelligence sections — the full picture for this juror:
- Favorability — each reviewer's rating with name and color attribution
- Notes — all general notes from all contributors, attributed by user
- Flags — manually flagged answers and auto-flagged answers (with the juror's actual answer shown), plus any dismissals recorded in Jurors
- Oral Question Flags — any oral questions flagged for this juror in the Oral Voir Dire tab, with inline notes
- Question comments — per-question notes entered in Responses or Jurors
Keyboard workflow
Click any row (or press ++arrow-right++) to expand it and activate keyboard shortcuts. Review the flags and notes in the detail panel, then press ++d++, ++p++, or ++s++ to act — the view automatically advances to the next juror. For quick decisions you can also click the action buttons directly in any row without expanding it first; auto-advance applies either way.
Juror Score¶
The Score column in the Qualified Pool and Seated Jury tables combines your team's favorability votes with flagged answer density into a single, color-coded signal. There are five levels (shown in the badge as a rank out of 5):
| Level | Rank | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Strong Favorable | 5/5 | Strong positive team signal with low flag density |
| Favorable | 4/5 | Positive team signal |
| Neutral | 3/5 | Mixed or insufficient signal |
| Concern | 2/5 | Negative signal or elevated flag density |
| Strong Concern | 1/5 | Strong negative team signal or high flag density |
| Unrated | — | No team member has cast a favorability vote yet |
The score draws on three inputs whose relative weights you can adjust in Case Settings:
- Team votes — how your team rated the juror's favorability. Any number of reviewers — including a single attorney — can reach a perfect vote score. When 2 or more reviewers all agree with no dissent, a unanimity bonus gives the score an extra push in that direction.
- Flagged answers — manually flagged responses, with dismissed flags carrying a reduced weight
- Auto-detected issues — questions matched by your Auto-Flags, with dismissed matches also reduced
Hovering over any score badge shows a plain-language breakdown of the contributing factors. Expanding a juror row reveals a visual breakdown of how each component contributed to the score.
Because the score is computed in real time from your team's current ratings and flags, it updates automatically as you work. A complete audit trail is saved inside the .jbinder bundle with each save, recording the exact inputs and weights used.
Score and details are hidden in Privacy Mode
When Privacy Mode is active, the Score column and all expandable detail panels are hidden. Only juror names and neutral status information remain visible.
Milestone banners¶
JuryBinder surfaces two workflow milestones as banners at the top of every view — Overview, Responses, Jurors, Oral Voir Dire, Selection, Analytics, Auto-Flags. Both include a quick Go to Selection button.
- Qualification pool full — fires when the qualified count reaches jury + alternates + both peremptory limits. Signals that P2 is done and P3 (peremptories + seating) can begin.
- Jury empaneled! — fires when seated count reaches jury + alternates. Signals that voir dire is complete and any still-qualified leftovers can be dismissed as not needed.