{"id":1887,"date":"2019-02-13T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:49:15","slug":"massachusetts-sjc-holds-jurors-can-bring-personal-world-view-into-jury-service-and-avoid-challenge-for-cause-in-commonwealth-v-quinton-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-holds-jurors-can-bring-personal-world-view-into-jury-service-and-avoid-challenge-for-cause-in-commonwealth-v-quinton-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts SJC holds jurors can bring personal world view into jury service and avoid challenge for cause in Commonwealth v. Quinton Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gE iv gt\">The SJC decided the case of Commonwealth v. Quinton Williams finding that the trial judge did not error by excluding a juror who stated that the criminal justice system was rigged against young black Americans.\u00a0 The SJC in the majority opinion and concurring opinion of the Chief Justice stated that it would not be proper to exclude the juror for cause based on this opinion, which the Court indicated has empirical support so is closer to a fact than opinion.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":1bk\" class=\"ii gt adO\">\n<div id=\":1bl\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\nThe Court found that the trial judge properly excluded the juror because of her equivocation about whether she could be fair and impartial.\u00a0 The Chief Justice in his concurring opinion indicated that the court gives great deference to a trial judge questioning a juror as the questions are quick and spontaneous.\u00a0 The Chief Justice indicated that while he would not have excluded the juror and may have asked more questions, that he did not find a reversible error in the decision to exclude the juror.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant argued that if the court strikes a juror for cause improperly, the court should automatically reverse the conviction as it is a structural error in the trial, the equivalent of giving the Commonwealth and extra peremptory challenge.\u00a0 The Court rejected the argument that this is the same as denying the defendant a peremptory challenge finding that the juror was presumably replaced with another fair juror.\u00a0 The Court found that a defendant is not entitled to a a jury of any particular composition.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-holds-jurors-can-bring-personal-world-view-into-jury-service-and-avoid-challenge-for-cause-in-commonwealth-v-quinton-williams\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts SJC holds jurors can bring personal world view into jury service and avoid challenge for cause in Commonwealth v. 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Quinton Williams finding that the trial judge did not error by excluding a juror who stated that the criminal justice system was rigged against young black Americans.\u00a0 The SJC in the majority opinion and concurring opinion of the Chief Justice stated that it would not be proper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-trials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts SJC holds jurors can bring personal world view into jury service and avoid challenge for cause in Commonwealth v. 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