Griffin v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “[Juror] Carel, of course, never said that she could not be fair. At most, she indicated that her first inclination, if faced with conflicting stories from a police officer and a fourteen-year-old boy, would 'most likely' be to believe the officer. ... In this case, although [juror] Carel expressed an initial inclination that police officers are more credible than teenagers, she never expressed an irrational or unshakeable bias that indicated an inability or unwillingness to faithfully and impartially apply the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jeffrey P. Lepsch

2. “In the abstract, it is certainly not unreasonable for an ordinary person to say she would generally tend to believe a prison guard over a prison inmate. But that certainly doesn't mean that in a given case, after hearing sworn testimony under oath and considering all the facts and circumstances, that that same juror would automatically believe a given guard over a given inmate. Generalized questions of the sort asked here are a slim basis upon which to base a challenge for cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jeffrey P. Lepsch

3. “arguments raised for the first time in a reply brief are deemed waived”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Our Country Home Enters. v. Comm'r