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· 1/3/2023

RAYON PAYNE vs SANDRA KOCH

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that in a robbery case bias presumed where juror was a victim of robbery
  • “Notwithstanding the court’s above strong intimation of the possibility of establishing prejudice ... no hearing was ordered and no hearing was held.”
  • set aside a robbery conviction where it was disclosed at posttrial hearings that a juror had earlier been a robbery victim
  • implied bias found when a juror was a robbery victim and defendant was on trial for robbery
  • recent victim of robbery similar in manner to that for which defendant on trial could not render an unbiased verdict
  • victim of robbery under circumstances similar to case on trial

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