Rule 12-1 Voir Dire
Article 12. Trials
Rule Text
(a) The Court may propound, or cause to be propounded by the parties, such questions of the jurors as provided in OCGA § 15-12-133. The form, time required, and number of such questions is within the sole discretion of the Court.
(b) The Court may require that questions be asked once only to the full array of the jurors rather than to every juror (i.e., one at a time), provided that the question be framed and the response given in a manner that provides the propounder with an individual response prior to the interposition of challenge.
(c) The parties shall not ask hypothetical questions, but such questions may be allowed in the discretion of the Court. The parties shall not ask how a juror would act in certain contingencies or on a certain hypothetical state of facts.
(d) Parties shall not frame questions to elicit a response from a juror that might amount to a prejudgment of the action.
(e) Parties shall not ask questions calling for an opinion by a juror on matters of law.
(f) The Court shall exclude questions that have been answered in substance previously by the same juror.
(g) The Court may, in its sole discretion, permit examination of each juror without the presence of the remainder of the panel.
(h) Objections to the mode and conduct of voir dire shall be raised promptly or such objections will be deemed waived.