If you decide on a jury trial, potential jurors are selected from a pool of the registered voters, licensed drivers, and other public data. Through a process called "voir dire" both sides are allowed to ask questions of the prospective jurors as they try to create the most favorable jury panel from their special perspective.

The jurors should not have any bias toward the defendant or the Commonwealth. They should not be closely involved with any of the parties. The Commonwealth may not use race as a basis for excluding jurors from jury panels. 

As a practical matter, juries in York County tend to be predominantly white and older. Though York County is changing demographically, that is what the county tends to look like statistically, so those are the jury panels you generally get.

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