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Fifth District: Juror Bias

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

It is sometimes thought that so long as a prospective juror ultimately agrees he or she can be fair to both sides and follow the law, then the juror can be properly seated over objection despite prior admissions showing bias. This decision from the Fifth District rejects that notion in the context of a prospective juror who first admitted favoring law enforcement but later succumbed to the

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).