State v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “State v. Hallal, 557 So.2d 1388 (La.1990), held that a juror should have been dismissed for cause after she said she would assign greater credibility to the State because her husband worked for the Sheriff's Office and she knew the officers who would testify. The court reversed the conviction and remanded. While the trial judge is accorded broad discretion in ruling on challenges for cause, this Court has cautioned that "[a] challenge for cause should be granted, even when a prospective juror declares his ability to remain impartial, if the juror's responses as a whole reveal facts from which bias, prejudice or inability to render judgment according to law may be reasonably implied." [Citations omitted]. In this case, [the juror] never expressly stated that she could put aside her acquaintanceship with the police officers, and it was not reasonable for the trial court to accept assurances that she would judge the case impartially on the evidence at trial from a juror who began with the premise that the police officers directly involved in the arrest and questioning of the defendant were telling the truth. See also State v. Jones, 623 So.2d 877 (La.App. 1 Cir.), writ den. 629 So.2d 419 (La.1993), which reversed a conviction and held that a juror who was formerly employed by the Louisiana State Police and who did not expressly state that she would set aside her bias in favor of police officers should have been dismissed for cause.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson · 738 So. 2d 1128 - State v. Paul