That has mostly meant removing potential jurors who violated the judge's order to avoid press coverage, television and radio.

During jury selection, prosecutors and defense lawyers can exercise a specified number of such challenges to remove prospective jurors without giving reasons.

Second, whether a judge may remove jurors "for cause" when they refuse to apply the law as instructed.

That is a very different standard from the one courts use in evaluating requests to remove jurors for cause.

In 1986 the Court ruled that prosecutors could not remove black potential jurors from a panel without grounds for questioning the impartiality of each individual.

But each side also has a number of peremptory challenges, allowing lawyers to remove jurors without giving reasons.

Each side in the trial is allotted a certain number of challenges to remove prospective jurors from consideration.

There will be new scrutiny of lawyers' ability to remove prospective jurors with unrestricted peremptory challenges.

Peremptory challenges are used to remove jurors thought to be undesirable for virtually any reason by either side in a court case.

The jury pool must reach at least 64 before each side can make its 23 peremptory challenges, removing potential jurors for any reason.