The right of peremptory challenge is a legal right in jury selection for the attorneys to reject a certain number of potential jurors or judges without...
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challenging the registration status of voters Euphemism for disability Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors from jury duty A procedure or action...
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Look up peremptory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peremptory can refer to any of the following concepts in law: Peremptory challenge Peremptory norm...
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Batson v. Kentucky (redirect from Batson challenge)
United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid...
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Strike for cause (redirect from Challenge for cause)
Unlike a peremptory challenge (the number of which are limited by the court during voir dire, and unless a Batson challenge is raised the challenge is automatically...
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Recusal (redirect from Challenge to judge)
Peremptory challenges of judges, which is in use in 17 states where each party gets the chance to pass on the judge selected and can still challenge the...
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can be challenged, and may not serve. This must be done before the oath is taken, and on limited grounds. Peremptory challenges, or challenges without...
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make "challenges for cause" and "peremptory challenges" to remove jurors. Traditionally the removal of jurors based on a peremptory challenge required...
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (redirect from An Act to amend the Criminal Code (peremptory challenges))
power of defendants to dismiss potential jurors as part of their peremptory challenge rights granted as early as 1215 in the Magna Charta document. This...
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moment for this community and this country". Legislation eliminating peremptory challenges from jury selection was enacted in 2019 and upheld by the Supreme...
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strikes, which resulted in a Batson challenge by the defense (Batson v. Kentucky (1986) established that peremptory challenge cannot be used to discriminate...
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thirty-five peremptory challenges in cases of treason, but only twenty in cases of felony and none in cases of misdemeanours; all peremptory challenges, however...
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allows three peremptory challenges per side unless there is more than one accused in which case the prosecution can peremptorily challenge 3 times the...
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became the trial judge after defense attorney Ellen Leonida made a peremptory challenge against judge Mary Ann O'Malley on the grounds that the jurist was...
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to peremptory challenges by prosecutors in capital and treason cases—the Crimes Act controlled, and thus prosecutors were to be given no peremptory challenges...
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J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. (category Batson challenge case law)
decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror's sex are unconstitutional....
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have a specific number of arbitrary dismissals, or unconditional peremptory challenge, which does not require specific reasons. The judge can also dismiss...
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Flowers v. Mississippi (category Batson challenge case law)
is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors during a series of Mississippi criminal trials...
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C-75 in response to the Colten Boushie case. Bill C-75 eliminated peremptory challenges of jurors in criminal cases, thereby preventing the exclusion of...
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may have an opportunity to mount a challenge for cause argument or use one of a limited number of peremptory challenges. In some jurisdictions that have...
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always entails an expert's assistance in the attorney's use of peremptory challenges—the right to reject a certain number of potential jurors without...
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"Whereas the first challenge was an 'alternative' challenge, which could be satisfied by an apology, this one [a peremptory challenge] could be satisfied...
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motivated use of peremptory challenges. There are three steps to a Batson inquiry. First, the party opposing the use of a peremptory challenge must make a...
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Supreme Court decision Batson v. Kentucky, prosecutors could use the peremptory challenge to arbitrarily exclude individuals from a jury based solely on their...
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whites. As of 2014, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a peremptory challenge based on perceived sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Jurors...
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Asking a question unrelated to an intelligent exercise of a peremptory challenge or challenge for cause: if opposing counsel asks such a question during...
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challenge a conviction because a challenge for cause was denied incorrectly if they had the opportunity to use peremptory challenges. In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado...
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jurors is to use peremptory challenges, which cannot be rejected by the judge. However, attorneys can only use peremptory challenges for a limited number...
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100 empaneled jurors were black, but all were "struck" through peremptory challenges by the prosecution. In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed...
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century. The United States Supreme Court upheld it against a constitutional challenge in United States v. Jewell.: 762 Consciousness of guilt Ostrich Instruction:...
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