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Sanchez v. State

Citations

  • 165 S.W.3d 707
  • 2005 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 971
  • 2005 WL 1467884

How courts have described this case

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  • providing that seeking to commit a juror to an outcome based on specific facts of the ease is improper
  • explaining that “the scope of a permissible voir dire examination is necessarily broad to enable litigants to discover any bias or prejudice so that they may make either challenges for cause or peremptory challenges”
  • noting that the first purpose of voir dire is to establish a basis for a challenge for cause when a potential juror is legally disqualified or is biased or prejudiced for or against one of the parties or the relevant law
  • noting that the first purpose of voir dire is to establish a basis for a challenge for cause when a potential juror is legally disqualified or is biased or prejudiced for or against one of the parties or the relevant law
  • interpreting Rich to hold that “Rule 44.2(b) ... is applicable when voir dire is conducted in a group setting and defendant is prohibited from asking a proper question of the panel”
  • explaining that one purpose of voir dire “is to indoctrinate the jurors on the party’s theory of the case” and that “[v]oir dire for this purpose is entirely within the judge’s discretion, and he may permit or prohibit it as he deems appropriate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cochran, Keller, Price, Womack, Keasler, Holcomb, Johnson, Meyers, Hervey

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