Any member of the public may pick up the jury pool list from the court clerk once the jury pool has been summoned. They must be sent the summons at least 10 days before they are to serve (and thus 10 days before the trial) and the list is supposed to be made available right after the summons go out. Thus, about 10 days before the trial the defendant’s lawyer may get the list if he/she wishes to do an investigation of pool members. But if Tennessee does jury pools anything like the jurisdictions in which I practice do, the jury pool in larger cities is huge, several hundred people, and it would not be practical or cost efficient to try to do much investigation of that pool prior to trial. Attorneys generally focus on the answers to the questions given when they respond to the summons along with the answers they give during voir dire in making their selections.
I’d caution any criminal defendant not to contact any member of the jury pool at any point prior to the end of the trial. Contact with jurors ahead of time by the defendant risks either accusations of jury tampering and/or tainting the jury, neither of which is a good thing for the defendant.

