Washington State ~ educate yourself with the 2012 Prosecutors DV manual.

AnotherDAM · 2017-01-14T06:11:56+00:00

While Duluth isn't mentioned the section on primary aggressor is telling.

You cannot have a meaningful discussion with your representative unless you educate yourself on their understanding.

Ted8367 · 2017-01-14T12:02:36+00:00

Voir dire serves several purposes, including finding jurors who can be fair and impartial in deciding your case without bias to either side.

Sounds good

Another purpose is to educate the jurors about domestic violence through your questioning and their answers.

This seems very suspect to me. Surely this is setting up the jury to see things your - in this case, the prosecutor's - way. It's an injection of bias, not impartial at all. A similar slant comes from their use of "victim" and "survivor" throughout, which prejudges the issue.

Voir dire is important in domestic violence cases, particularly if the prosecutor has a difficult, recanting, or no-show victim. Although questionnaires may be useful in DV-Sex Assault cases, the prosecutor should avoid allowing defense to offer a questionnaire. It is highly likely that the majority of prospective jurors will have a close connection to a DV victim. It is important to keep in mind that a DV victim will not necessarily be the best juror. Of course, the DV batterer will never be a good juror. Finally, jurors with a close relationship to DV victims can be invaluable to your voir dire.

(Bold emphasis added). The bolded sentence surprised me, to say the least. Jurors are a sample of the local population, and a majority of them are highly likely to have a close connection to a DV survivor? What sort of place is Washington State? Either a shithole of universal unremitting violence; or else the authors of this document have drifted off into some sort of parallel reality.

AnotherDAM · 2017-01-14T16:56:36+00:00

I am not sure if the person who maintains their website is great at creating breakable links (hard-coding an actual IP address) or bad at web design.

Registered domain name - www.waprosecutors.org
Root FTP-ish source of PDFs and other info - http://70.89.120.146/wapa/manuals.html
Root of similar more web friendly versions - http://www.waprosecutors.org/pubs.html

sc12435687 · 2017-01-14T20:46:12+00:00

I've never seen an IP address shown as the target website in reddit before. Huh.

Title	Washington State ~ educate yourself with the 2012 Prosecutors DV manual.
Author	AnotherDAM
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Date	January 14, 2017 6:08 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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