Jones v. Shea

How courts have described this case

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• comparing ongoing doctor-patient relationship where there is “necessity for trust and confidence upon the part of the patient in his physician’s judgment” and, therefore, implied bias, to former doctor-patient relationships where no bias can be implied (quotation omitted)
• prospective juror challengeable for cause if he or she has fixed opinion, bias or prejudice
• defendant prejudiced at plea-bargaining stage as state’s attorney’s advertisement during campaign stated that he would “vigorously prosecute [defendant] and obtain a second conviction” because past conviction improperly overturned
• jurors were current patients of the doctor defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).