{"id":94753,"date":"2017-03-20T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=94753"},"modified":"2017-03-20T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:32:56","slug":"cosby-wants-jury-pool-prescreened-for-bias-before-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/20\/cosby-wants-jury-pool-prescreened-for-bias-before-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosby wants jury pool prescreened for bias before trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94754\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/995696_10151556603184930_1035852581_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94754\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/995696_10151556603184930_1035852581_n.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Cosby's lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury selection begins in person. (Photo: Bill Cosby\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/995696_10151556603184930_1035852581_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/995696_10151556603184930_1035852581_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/995696_10151556603184930_1035852581_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Cosby&#8217;s lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury selection begins in person. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/billcosby\/photos\/a.10150394441499930.383685.103114564929\/10151556603184930\/?type=3&amp;theater\"> Bill Cosby\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA\u2014Bill Cosby&#8217;s lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury selection begins in person.<\/p>\n<p>A defence motion filed Monday says the \u201cinflammatory\u201d worldwide coverage of the case has probably left some potential jurors with opinions about the actor&#8217;s guilt or innocence.<\/p>\n<p>They say pretrial questionnaires have been used before in celebrity trials.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old Cosby is charged with drugging and molesting a young woman at his house in 2004. Cosby calls the sex acts consensual.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to go on trial June 5 near Philadelphia. The jurors will be chosen from the Pittsburgh area because of pretrial publicity and sequestered about 300 miles near the Montgomery County courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Cosby&#8217;s lawyers want to send pretrial questionnaires to 1,500 to 2,000 potential jurors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA\u2014Bill Cosby&#8217;s lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[10006],"class_list":["post-94753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bill-cosby","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}