Imagine that you have been summoned for jury duty in the United States. If you are selected to be on the jury,you will be hearing a rape case where a 23-year-old female alleges sexual assault. In order to select the jury (aprocess known by the Latin termvoir dire), both the prosecutor and defense attorney question the jury pool toidentify and dismiss for cause people who have strong opinions about the subject matter, who already knowabout the case, or who may be biased for or against either party to the trial. Attorneys may also dismissmembers of the jury pool who they think will not be favorable to their case. These types of dismissals are calledperemptory challengesand the attorneys have a limited number of them.During the process of jury selection, you notice the prosecutors are using their limited peremptory challenges todismiss most of the young women from the jury pool. You find this peculiar, given that young women would seemto be most favorable to the prosecution's case.