{"id":202,"date":"2013-07-02T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2013\/07\/mistake-of-jurors-a-valid-excu.html"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:20:13","slug":"mistake-of-jurors-a-valid-excu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/mistake-of-jurors-a-valid-excu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistake of Jurors a Valid Excuse for Use of Peremptory Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Constitution guarantees every criminal defendant a right to a fair and speedy trial. One way a trial is deemed fair is to have an impartial jury decide the fate of the case. To ensure a jury is impartial, both the defense and the prosecution will select the jury through the process of voir dire. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/\">Massachusetts defense attorney<\/a>, it is often this process that can win or lose a case as it is imperative to get jurors who will not be biased against your client.<\/p>\n<p>The process of voir dire usually consists of the jurors being asked questions about their age, employment and life experience. This is in hopes of uncovering any bias the juror may have and to find out whether he or she will be an impartial juror. If any deficiencies in the juror are apparent that lead the judge to believe the juror could not be impartial, the juror will be stricken for cause and not allowed to hear the trial. To further ensure a fair trial, each side is given five peremptory challenges which allows the lawyers to strike a juror for no reason and have them not sit for trial. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment does not allow a lawyer to use one of these peremptory challenges based solely on race. This rule was decided in <u>Batson v. Kentucky<\/u>. The Supreme Court in that case stated once a lawyer displays a pattern of discrimination through his or her peremptory challenges, the other side can make an objection. This has become known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/webster.utahbar.org\/barjournal\/2010\/11\/raising_a_successful_batson_ch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Batson challenge<\/a>. Once this objection is raised, the attorney will have to state a legitimate reason why they decided to strike the juror other than their race. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/mistake-of-jurors-a-valid-excu\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Mistake of Jurors a Valid Excuse for Use of Peremptory Challenge\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Constitution guarantees every criminal defendant a right to a fair and speedy trial. 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