Langston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The principal assignment of error is as to accepting jurors over defendant’s challenges for cause, who had heard the evidence in the Buckley case. Section 2G of the state Constitution guarantees every person a fair trial by an impartial jury, and a juror who has heard all the evidence from the witnesses does not constitute a fair and impartial juror, even though he testifies on his voir dire examination that he can discard his opinion, formed from hearing the evidence, and try the defendant fairly and impartially, notwithstanding such opinion so formed. Sheppric v. State, 79 Miss. 740 , 31 So. 416 ; Murphy v. State, 92 Miss. 203 , 45 So. 865 ; Klyce v. State, 79 Miss. 652 , 31 So. 339 ; House v. State, 96 Miss. 653, 51 So. 274 ; Jeffries v. State, 74 Miss. 675 , 21 So. 526 . It is difficult to see how the juror could ever form an opinion that would be lasting, if he had not formed it from hearing the evidence delivered from the witness stand in another case involving the same facts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ladner v. State