Commonwealth v. Lumley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• inquiry mandated when a defendant is a “special target for prejudice”; in all other cases, the trial judge should grant a motion for such questioning
• acquittal on sexual charges, paired with conviction of robbery, indicated impartiality of jury and appropriateness of voir dire
• acquittal on sexual charges, paired with conviction of robbery, indicated impartiality of jury and appropriateness of voir dire
• the fact that the defendant was acquitted of certain inflammatory charges was “strong evidence that the jurors were, in fact, impartial and the [questioning] conducted by the trial judge was appropriate in these circumstances”
• court rule gives right to inquire about prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).