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where we have been. Because of that no human is uniquely
situated to be fair and impartial in every type of
situation. There may be things in your background that
would make it difficult for you to be fair and impartial
in certain situations. That is why we have to ask you
questions.

If you are not asked to sit on this jury
no one has said anything bad about you. Your integrity
has not been impugned in any way. Merely a decision has
been made about you in a relatively short period of time,
with a relatively small amount of information about your
ability to be fair and impartial with the people seated
around you.

The fact of the matter is, we might even
be wrong. But that is what our effort is, is to try to
give both sides a fair trial here today. That’s all both
sides are asking for here today. We need to try to
select a jury that can give them that opportunity.

Now, what I am going to do, I want to go
through is have you identify yourselves for us. We have
questionnaires on you. We know who you are. We know
some important things about you. It’s important that we
are able to put names with faces, and I do that for a lot
of reasons. First of all, I’d like to try to identify
the names and faces. Second of all, some of you have