Several years ago, the late Justice David Borden and Superior Court Judge Carl Schuman made the case for panel voir dire as an option to traditional individual voir dire in Connecticut in a scholarly law review article that established that it is completely constitutional, if it allowed lawyers to question jurors in the panel individually.

The authors also argued that such voir dire would save the parties resources and not result in jurors that were less biased than if they were selected individually, separate from each other, as is traditionally done. The parties save resources because panel voir dire takes one to two hours whereas traditional voir dire takes days, sometimes weeks. Panel voir dire also gives the potential jurors a break who otherwise might have to sit around all day to be called for individual voir dire.