Menefee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2019
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · Arnold v. State · Farley v. State · Garland v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]n response to a general voir dire question whether one had been the victim of a crime, a prospective juror disclosed that several years earlier she had been attacked at gunpoint and kidnapped ... Upon inquiry by defense counsel, the juror acknowledged that this experience would affect her service, adding that "there is [sic] racial issues involved." When asked to explain, the juror stated that "the person that attacked me was a black man and I would have to be able to overlook that." Upon further inquiry about her feelings concerning the defendant's race and her earlier experience, she responded, "I don't really want to admit it, how I feel ... prejudiced probably would be the way." She then unequivocally stated that she harbors prejudice toward the defendant because of the encounter with her attacker. After defense counsel moved to strike the juror for cause, the court inquired whether she could set aside her previous experience and decide this case solely on the evidence and the court's instructions, to which she responded, "I would like to try ... it's hard to say absolutely ." Upon further questioning by the court, the juror merely stated that her feelings were something she "would have to deal with." In response to a follow-up question by the prosecutor as to whether she believed the defendant is guilty of the crime charged merely because he is an African-American male, the juror responded, "it crossed my mind." She then revealed that the reason it crossed her mind wa”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although we recognize that the determination of impartiality ... is particularly within the province of the trial judge ... and absent a manifest abuse of this discretion, we cannot require a new trial, we nevertheless conclude that the questioning of the prospective juror failed to elicit the necessary response that she would be able to lay aside her prejudices and personal experiences and fairly and impartially decide the case on the evidence presented at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“She then unequivocally stated that she harbors prejudice toward the defendant because of the encounter with her attacker. After defense counsel moved to strike the juror for cause, the court inquired whether she could set aside her previous experience and decide this case solely on the evidence and the court's instructions, to which she responded,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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