Stark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “), rev'd, 657 S.W.2d 115 (Tex. Crim.App.1983) (" Stark II "). In Stark I, the Austin Court of Appeals stated, "It is plain that art. 35.11 contemplates only one shuffle of the jury panel, be it at the request of the State or at the request of one or more of the defendants. The purpose of the jury shuffle is, after all, to insure a random list of jurors. ... That purpose, the random seating of the panel members, may be achieved by one shuffle whether made in response to a motion of the State or the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Urbano v. State · Jones v. State

2. ““The trial judge, upon the demand of the defendant or his attorney, or of the State’s counsel, shall cause the names of all the members of the general panel drawn or assigned as jurors in such case to be placed in a receptacle and well-shaken, and the clerk shall draw therefrom the names of a sufficient number of jurors from which a jury may be selected to try such case, and such names shall be written, in the order drawn, on the jury list from which the jury is to be selected to try such case, and write the names as drawn upon two slips of paper and deliver one slip to the State’s counsel and the other to the defendant or his attorney.””

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