Criminal,
California Supreme Court
Jul. 27, 2018
Split state high court says juror mistake in death case was unintentional
A split California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that a juror who had not disclosed her childhood abuse in a pretrial questionnaire was not biased against a multiple murderer who argued his own traumatic youth in mitigation because the omission was unintentional.
The state Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that a juror who had not disclosed her childhood abuse in a pretrial questionnaire was not biased against a multiple murderer who argued his own traumatic youth in mitigation because the omission was unintentional.
A juror referred to as C.B. admitted in post-trial examination she found the petitioner's mitigating evidence -- that he had been severely abused while growing up on a ranch in ...
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