Legal expert Jaya Balani, with Mark NeJame’s law firm, explains all that goes in to the jury selection process.
“It's moving at a fairly good pace considering we're only on day three. They're trying to get to those 30 jury panel to be able to get to the next phase of questioning. That's when they can go into the next phase."
"The problem with what's going on is, if we're only hitting nine jurors a day, the next phase could take a lengthy time, and then they use up their cause or peremptory, and then we have to go into the next set of jurors to start questioning them."
"I do feel that there's a good possibility that it will go into the two, possibly three week time frame, depending on how these jurors are."
"There's been many jurors that have an extensive knowledge of this case, which is completely normal in a high-profile case like this and there have been some jurors that you can tell by their questioning that they don't want to be on the jury panel, and others who are excited about being on the jury panel. And you also have to wade through why they're feeling this way or the other. You want to see if they're feeling this way because they're trying to convict George Zimmerman or if they're trying to acquit him. There's different options that are going on there.”