Law Practice
Feb. 14, 2015
You still need a reason to use peremptory challenges
Simply stating a preference for the next juror in line without any other reason is not enough. By Gregory M. Smith
On Feb. 9, the California Court of Appeal published People v. Cisneros, 2015 DJDAR 1603, which is a good reminder to all trial lawyers - criminal and civil - that they must have a reason to exercise a peremptory challenge to strike a juror; simply stating a preference for the next juror in line without any other reason is not enough.
Peremptory challenges cannot be used to strike prospective jurors on the basis of group bias -...
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