Bundy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““[BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: I’m somewhat confused. This just doesn’t seem right. I thought each side got four strikes. I’m just looking at the rule book. I don’t understand how the State gets eight. THE COURT: Well, it’s two cases here. You get four for your case and the State gets four for her case. [Codefendant’s counsel] gets four for her case and she gets four. [CODEFENDANT’S ATTORNEY]: But, they’re being charged as codefendants, Your Honor. It’s one trial. [BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: You see what I’m saying. The State — even though they’re calling two separate charging documents we are talking about one trial. I mean, the reason that I said that — we are sitting there, she keeps on striking and it just doesn’t seem quite right. THE COURT: Okay. [BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: So— THE COURT: What are you asking? [BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: Well— THE COURT: She is entitled to eight. You each get four. [BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: Okay. I’m just going to I guess lodge an objection to the panel then at this point in time. [CODEFENDANT’S ATTORNEY]: I will join in the objection and ask for a mistrial at this point. [BUNDY’S ATTORNEY]: I will join in that too.””

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

2. ““At the time the appellant finally objected [after the selection of the alternate juror], there was nothing the trial judge could do about the matter. Jurors earlier challenged could hardly be recalled and seated. There would be a question of which jurors then seated should be unseated. There would be a question of whether one of the unseated jurors should, in turn, unseat the alternate. There was, of course, always the possibility that the dismissed jurors had been sent home for the day, thus ending their jury service. There was also the possibility that the dismissed jurors had been sent to another courtroom and, possibly, even impaneled to hear another case. When the judge was finally called upon to rule upon the appellant’s objection, there was no remedy available. ‘The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.’ ””

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

3. ““Preliminarily, we have to note that the appellant’s complaint ... about the State's having been awarded peremptory challenges is beside the point. The awarding of excess challenges would be immaterial if, in fact, they were never utilized. In this case, the State used six of the eight peremptory challenges it was awarded. The significant error, therefore, if error it be, is not that the State was awarded four additional peremptory challenges to which it was not entitled but that it actually utilized two additional peremptories to which it was not entitled.” (Emphasis in original).”

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