245 Mich. App. 243 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “" The Court: Okay. You can keep it separate, good. Anyone else?" When the prosecutor questioned the prospective jurors, she asked whether they would have any difficulty sitting on a jury where the defendant was charged with felonious assault and assault and battery domestic violence. None of the jurors responded. When defense counsel questioned the jurors, he asked, "Has anyone in this jury box every [sic] been where you felt you were threatened with some type of weapon?" Juror 457 responded that she had been hit in the head with a gun as a teenager, but stated that she could put it aside. When defense counsel asked whether any of the prospective jurors had "something weighing so heavily on your mind right now that you might not be able to give full attention to this case" and "wouldn't want themselves sitting as a juror if they were the Defendant in a case," Juror 457 did not respond. The trial court also asked each of the newly seated jurors if there were any reasons why they should not serve as a juror in the case. Defense counsel, after requesting the court to remove one juror for cause and exercising six peremptory challenges, expressed satisfaction with the jury. After trial, and before the sentencing hearing, defendant moved for a new trial on the basis of juror bias, contending that Juror 457 did not reveal during voir dire that, at the time of the trial, she was a complainant in a domestic violence case and that the same special unit of the office of the Oakland Coun”

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

2. “[w]ould any experienced trial lawyer, or, for that matter, the public generally, feel differently as to the capacity of a local police officer to sit as a juror and consider impartially the case of a defendant charged with a crime committed in the community? We think not.”

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

3. “[g]iven a reasonably diligent inquiry that seeks to discover bias, I see no legitimate reason to make voir dire an exhaustive process that examines every event in a venire member's life from the moment of birth onward....”

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