· 3/10/1981
Haak v. State
Citations
- 417 N.E.2d 321
- 275 Ind. 415
- 1981 Ind. LEXIS 697
How courts have described this case
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- holding that juror bias is implied when juror’s husband accepted employment as an attorney with prosecuting attorney’s office
- concluding that a juror was impliedly biased where her husband accepted 15 employment as a prosecutor
- concluding that a juror 18 was impliedly biased where her husband accepted employment as a prosecutor
- concluding that a juror was impliedly biased where her husband accepted employment as a prosecutor
- holding that spouse of deputy prosecutor was impliedly biased and should not have been allowed on jury
- “Because the possibility of juror bias had been raised by appellant Barnes’ allegation, and because there had been no opportunity to discover this bias at the time the jury was selected, we remanded . . . [for] an evidentiary hearing.”
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Judges: Pivarnik, Giyan, Debruler, Hunter, Prentice
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