Gerald Glenn Johnson v. Bill Armontrout

How courts have described this case

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• holding harmless error analysis does not apply in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim for failure to challenge a juror for cause because the presence of a biased jury is no less a fundamental structural defect than the presence of a biased judge
• granting § 2254 relief and holding that the court “cannot say that an ambiguous silence by a large group of venire persons to a general question about bias is sufficient to support a finding of fact in the circumstances of this case”
• granting § 2254 relief and holding that the court “cannot say that an ambiguous silence by a large group of venire persons to a general question about bias is sufficient to support a finding of fact in the circumstances of this case”
• \The presence of a biased jury is no less a fundamental structural defect than the presence of a biased judge. We find this claim outside the gamut of harmless error analysis.\
• if defendant fails to object to juror, has Sixth Amendment claim only if proves actual bias
• “Absent the showing of a strategic decision, failure to request the removal of a biased juror can constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).