Coleman v. Reed

How courts have described this case

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• reversing for juror’s statements of pro-police bias without discussing the degree of impact of police testimony or credibility in the case
• reversing conviction where a juror’s stated beliefs “start[ed] with the premise that he would believe a police officer over another witness”
• “In conducting our review, we consider the juror’s entire voir dire, not merely isolated statements.” (citing Vinson v. Commonwealth, 258 Va. 459, 467 (1999))
• “For that guarantee to be effective, persons accused of violating criminal laws must be provided with ‘an impartial jury drawn from a panel . . . free from exceptions.’ Every prospective juror must stand indifferent to the cause.” (quoting Breeden, 217 Va. at 300)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).