In a world where people are motivated by the Internet to buy everything from candles to cookware and fall victim to watching viral videos for hours on a loop, is it naive to think there's a chance for impartiality when picking jurors?

An impartial jury relies on excluding jurors with previous knowledge or opinions of a case. With over 65% of the world's population having access to the Internet, it's a challenge to say the least.

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Jury impartiality dates back to the early 1800s when the trial judge in Aaron Burr's case called for jurors to listen to testimony with open minds and be questioned carefully before being accepted as jurors. Since the modes of communication and information sharing were significantly limited compared to what's available today, impartiality was easier to come by. Fast forward a couple hundred years, and it's difficult to think any potential jurors are coming in fresh to a case without preconceived notions.

The subject of jury impartiality was a hot topic during the 2021 Derek Chauvin trial. When the former Minneapolis police officer was charged with murdering George Floyd, it was nearly impossible to find a jury pool who hadn't seen or heard the story on the news. If not privy to the........

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