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NEW YORK The longtime host of The Late Show with David Letterman found himself answering questions rather than asking them when a federal judge in New York City put the entertainer through an audition of sorts on Monday for a possible role as a juror in a criminal trial.en..
Kevin Castel confronted the famous bearded comedian, identified in court only as Juror 16, with questions just as he did three dozen other potential jurors to determine who would be on a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates..
When Letterman, who stepped down from his show in 2015, made it to what could be the final round for admittance on the jury, the judge lobbed a softball: Where do you live?.
Along the way, the judge, lawyers and three dozen or so prospective jurors learned a lot that the world already knows about Letterman..
In the end, shortly before the jury was sworn in, Letterman was ejected when a prosecutor exercised what is known as a strike, which allows lawyers on either side to release a certain number of potential jurors from the panel for any reason at all..
