People v. Metcalfe

How courts have described this case

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• holding prejudice is not presumed where counsel allowed a biased juror to serve on the jury and the defendant must still demonstrate prejudice pursuant to Strickland
• explaining that an objection to a juror is waived when a party fails to challenge the juror for cause or use one of their peremptory challenges to excuse the juror
• deciding a challenge of a prospective juror for cause
• deciding a challenge of a prospective juror for cause
• finding the defendant suffered no prejudice from counsel’s failure to strike a biased juror because “the evidence was more than sufficient to prove [the] defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”
• “[A]lthough a trial court certainly has the discretion to remove a juror sua sponte for cause, a trial court does not have a duty to do so.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).