59 Va. App. 839 - Mayfield v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system, as a ground for excluding a juror for cause, must be raised in the trial court or that issue is waived.... Any "implication” arising from ... prior decision[s] that the question of public confidence may be raised in any appeal when a motion to strike a juror for cause has been denied, regardless of whether it was properly raised below is expressly rejected. The trial court must be apprised of the basis upon which a public confidence objection to a juror is made and the other litigants given an opportunity to address the trial court on that matter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Manneh Vay v. Commonwealth of Virginia