Trial Lawyers React: The Devil's Advocate

In one of Keanu Reeves' most remembered performances, he plays a trial attorney with a special gift. Real-world trial attorney Bill Colarulo breaks down an important scene from the film in this Trial Lawyers React.
The Devil's Advocate is a 1997 horror film starring Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, and Keanu Reeves. Based on a novel written by Andrew Neiderman and containing many allusions to John Milton's Paradise Lost, the film follows a lawyer played by Reeves as he slowly realizes that his boss is the Devil.
The scene shown in this video depicts part of the jury selection process. After potential jurors have been summoned, the judge and the attorneys question them in a process called voir dire. The purpose of this final step of jury selection is to ensure that any people who wouldn't be able to judge the case fairly are excluded from the jury. The attorneys are given a certain number of people, the exact number decided by the judge, to exclude. The attorneys are not required to provide a reason for their choices.
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[@jasperporciuncula8104]

Thank you for shedding light to my queries

[@B..P..]

Well said

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

As someone who has a fair jury process, it astounds me that America even allows lawyers to 'select' a jury.
You should get the jury you're given and just suck it up.

[@wvman2374]

its not that the lawyers get to pick who goes on the jury, there is a pool of potential jurors and each side gets to 'strike' a set number from the pool....like 3 each out of 36. Then from the remaining pool of potential jurors the actual jury is selected at random plus however many alternate jurors are needed.

[@razorfett147]

both sides get an equal say in the jury selection. there's no way to "load" a jury.
a completely random selection process leaves to much room for unfit jurors to be unwittingly placed on the case.
no system is perfect, but this one gives the best opportunity for a balanced jury

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

@@razorfett147 Yes, but the court should weed out the unfit jurors, not the lawyers.