Rios v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Your Honor, at this time I’m on the third row, and I believe it’s Juror No. 28. And I would ask for more time for the following reasons: There’s still half of the jury panel that I have to question on jobs that involve entry into homes. And this case involves entry into a home. Also, I have to ask the following question: Anti-crime organizations. I have not gotten to that. And I also need some more time so that I could touch on the punishment issue, Your Honor. And I would be asking people about punishment and individual jurors as to what they would consider for punishment, what they could, and then get their opinions, more specific opinions than they have expressed about punishment. For that reason, I would request more time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rios v. State

2. “We believe this harm from this error, like the erroneous granting of a jury shuffle in Roberts and the improper restriction on voir dire in Gonzales defies analysis, even though we have been ordered to analyze it and have tried to. The only way we can see to determine harm would be to have a motion for a new trial hearing and ask the jurors the forbidden voir dire questions. If they answered favorable to the defendant, would that prove he was not harmed? The answer is doubtful because we are dealing with peremptory strikes here, and the appellant might have used one even on a juror who, on a cold record answered favorably.”

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