GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire Case Jury Questionnaires Released
October 13, 2006The Associated Press has issued the following report:
Prospective jurors brought in for the planned trial against one of the owners of The Station nightclub, where a fire [at a GREAT WHITE show] killed 100 concertgoers, were given an exhaustive list of questions — from asking if they knew any of the victims to whether they had ever driven past the club after the 2003 fire.
The questionnaires that were actually filled out by the hundreds of people in the pool of prospective jurors have not been released by the court. But the blank copy of 102 questions show the exhaustive steps the court took to ferret out which jurors could impartially consider the case.
That was no easy task in a state so small that virtually everyone seemed to know somebody connected to the fire, which was started when a band's pyrotechnics set ablaze highly flammable foam used around the stage for soundproofing.
Michael Derderian, one of the nightclub's co-owners, pleaded no contest last month to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter charges as the jury selection process was under way, avoiding a trial. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
His brother and fellow club owner, Jeffrey Derderian, also pleaded no contest but was spared jail time.
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