Eighth Circuit· 9/5/1974

United States v. Oscar Bear Runner

Citations

502 F.2d 908
1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 6987

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reviewing court must examine the sufficiency of the voir dire questioning in light of all the attendant circumstances presented by the case
when facts surrounding the ease suggest the possibility of racial bias, general questions to the venire may be insufficient
“a searching voir dire is a necessary incident to the right to an impartial jury”
where trial was a few months after the well-publicized Wounded Knee incident, and the court held general questions addressing prejudice of questionable sufficiency, stating preference, under the circumstances, for individual voir dire
voir dire on racial bias in trial of American Indian was inadequate given the racial tensions in South Dakota arising out of the events at Wounded Knee
\[I]t is fundamental that the trial court has broad discretion in deciding what questions to ask [during voir dire] and that its rulings will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion.\

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Judges: Ross, Lay, Heaney

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