Your job for this essay is to act as a trial consultant. You can pick any recent case in the news, e.g., the Jeffrey Epstein case, the millionaire currently detained in Manhattan and facing charges of sex trafficking.

Pretend you have been hired as a jury consultant on the case of your choosing (and be sure to tell us what that case is) and assume that it will or was held before a jury. Tell us whether you are working for the prosecution or the defense. Come up with a list of 10 questions (no less, no more) that you would ask jurors to answer. These questions should be specific to this case. Try to be subtle. Instead of asking, for example, how do you feel about sex trafficking (to which nearly everyone will feel negatively), do your best to come up with more subtle questions that will help you distinguish between jurors who may be more or less favorable to your side. So if you were the attorney for Epstein, what sorts of subtle questions might you ask to pick up on whether a juror might be a little more favorable to your (widely disliked) client.

Provide a rationale for your questions. What sort of attitudes or tendencies do you hope to glean from these questions? Be thorough in describing how these questions will help your attorneys in the voir dire selection process select jurors who will be helpful to their side.