A new computer program promises to help screen jury candidates by analyzing their social media

An attorney's computer program offers to screen potential jurors based on their ethnicity, political views and occupation to find a jury most favorable to a defense lawyer's case. Momus Analytics, the company was founded by attorney Alex Alvarez, trawls potential jurors' social media accounts and uses the findings to predict whether or not they should be chosen. The program includes a racially-biased algorithm that suggests Asian, Central American, and South American people are more likely to be leaders - a quality the program appears to prize. People who described their race as'other' were found to be likely to be leaders. Alvarez, who worked with Texas-based software designer Frogslayer to develop the program, has a pending patent application for the program.