Case Name: Aaron HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-04-06
Citations: 413 So. 2d 94
Docket Number: No. 80-2516
Parties: Aaron HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HENDRY, BASKIN and JOR-GENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 413
Pages: 94–94

Head Matter:
Aaron HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 80-2516.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 6, 1982.
Rehearing Denied May 10, 1982.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Harold T. Smith, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and John F. Ro-benalt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before HENDRY, BASKIN and JOR-GENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
BASKIN, Judge.
We reverse defendant Holloway's convictions of burglary and grand theft because the record discloses that defense counsel was denied the right to exercise remaining peremptory challenges prior to the swearing of the jury.
[T]he right of a prisoner to challenge any juror peremptorily is absolute at any time before the juror is sworn, and . no circumstances can bring that right within the discretion of the court so long as it is confined to the number of peremptory challenges allowed by law.
O'Connor v. State, 9 Fla. 215, 228-29 (1860); Ellis v. State, 25 Fla. 702, 6 So. 768 (1889); Walden v. State, 319 So.2d 51 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975); Shelby v. State, 301 So.2d 461 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974); Knee v. State, 294 So.2d 411 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974); Kennick v. State, 107 So.2d 59 (Fla. 1st DCA 1958); Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.350; Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.310.
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.