586 So. 2d 1335 - Henry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “"Where a defendant seeks reversal based on a claim that he was wrongfully forced to exhaust his peremptory challenges [after "wasting" a peremptory challenge on a juror who should have been excused for cause], he initially must identify a specific juror whom he otherwise would have struck peremptorily. This juror must be an individual who actually sat on the jury and whom the defendant either challenged for cause or attempted to challenge peremptorily or otherwise objected to after his peremptory challenges had been exhausted."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 608 So. 2d 888 - Diaz v. State

2. “The test for determining the competence of a juror is not whether he will be able to control any bias or prejudice but rather whether he may lay aside those considerations and render his verdict solely upon the evidence presented and the instructions on the law given to him by the court. Where there is any reasonable doubt as to a juror’s possessing the requisite state of mind so as to render an impartial verdict, the juror should be excused and the defendant given the benefit of the doubt.”

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

3. “responses to court's leading questions reflect a desire to please the court, but do not dissipate the reasonable doubt raised by previous equivocal statements.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 867 So. 2d 1215 - Meade v. State