Maddux v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[Defense Counsel]: Now then, we’re not talking about any particular case. It would be improper to do that. But in a hypothetical case where there was a murder conviction and a child had died, how many of you would still be able to consider probation? [Prosecutor]: I object as being an improper— THE COURT: Sustained, committing the jury to specific facts. [Defense Counsel]: In a hypothetical situation assuming that fact and that fact alone, everything else was the same, the only fact that’s different is that a child died, how many of you would still be able to consider as little as five years probation? [Prosecutor]: I object as being an improper question, asking the jury to commit themselves to specific facts in a case. THE COURT: Sustained. [Defense Counsel]: I’d like for the record to reflect I would like to ask that question of each and every juror. THE COURT: It’s — the ruling stands.”

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

2. “If the present case had involved an aggravated sexual assault on a child, or some other offense in which the child complainant was a prospective witness, then defense counsel would have been entitled to question the venire members concerning bias for or against the child witness.”

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