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Ivey v. State

Citations

  • 574 S.E.2d 663
  • 258 Ga. App. 587
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 3627
  • 2002 Ga. App. LEXIS 1522

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing conviction where trial court abused its discretion by refusing to excuse a juror for cause, after judge improperly used a rehabilitation question to justify retaining the biased juror
  • reversing conviction where trial court abused its discretion by refusing to excuse a juror for cause, after judge improperly used a rehabilitation question to justify retaining the biased juror
  • “lengthy and repeated” questioning of a juror was “ ‘more an instruction on the desired answer than a neutral attempt to determine the juror’s impartiality’ ”
  • trial court improperly rehabilitated prospective juror who initially stated that she could not be fair and impartial, but upon lengthy and repeated questioning by the State and trial court “abandoned her own answers”
  • “Atrial court may not rely solely on a prospective juror’s extracted statement of impartiality, where, as here, consideration of the entirety of the voir dire reveals a prospective juror with a fixed and definite bias that she was unable to set aside in deciding the case.”

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Judges: Phipps, Blackburn, Johnson, Smith, Miller, Andrews, Mikell

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