When an attorney has to declare about his client that “so many people” in the jury pool “hate him so much,” you know voir dire isn’t going well.That’s exactly what happened this week in a San Francisco federal courtroom, where picking nine impartial jurors to hear a securities fraud case against billionaire Elon Musk turned into a five-hour marathon of bias and contempt.Federal Judge Charles R. Breyer was forced to dismiss more than 40 prospective jurors — nearly half the 93-person pool — after they admitted they simply couldn’t set aside their strong negative feelings about the billionaire tech CEO, Bloomberg Law reported.
