Worthon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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1. “As stated, the point preserves nothing for review. Even if it did, a claim of improper jury selection is a question of trial court error, and as such comes too late when raised for the first time in a 27.26 motion, absent a showing that movant had no knowledge of the improper jury selection until after the trial. In this case, no claim was made at the trial court level that the jury panel had been improperly selected or that this alleged defect was not discovered until after the appeal process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Worthan v. Wyrick