Holt v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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1. ““ To require that jurors shall come to the investigation ■of criminal charges with minds entirely unimpressed by what they may have heard in regard to them, or entirely without information concerning them, would be, in many cases, to. exclude every man from the panel who was fit to sit there. With the present means of information, the facts or rumors concerning an atrocious - crime are, in a very few hours, or days at the farthest, spread before every man of reading and intelligence within the district from which jurors are to be drawn, and over the whole country if the atrocity be especially great. And there are some crimes so great and striking, that even the most ignorant will have information and impressions in regard to them; and the rule, as stated, applied to such cases, would render the impaneling of a jury for their trial impossible, and make their very enormity a complete protection from punishment. “Without attempting or desiring to lay down rules for all cases, it is sufficient for us to say that the showing in the present case falls far short of establishing cause for challenge. The juror is shown to have formed a partial opinion, but not a positive opinion. This opinion was not based upon anything he had himself witnessed, or from information derived from those who claimed to know the facts, but upon street rumors. Now, when a person says he has formed, from street rumors, a partial, but not a positive, opinion, we think he is to be understood as speaking only o”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Quimby · 4 Okla. Crim. 164 - Turner v. State

2. “`mere statement of a juror, that he has formed an opinion, is not sufficient to disqualify him.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Miller