Opinion ID: 677091
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Exclusion of certain jurors

Text: 41 Parkus contends that his fifth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated by the exclusion for cause of several jurors who admitted during voir dire examination that they might be affected by the possibility of a sentence of death in this case. See Adams v. Texas, 448 U.S. 38, 50, 100 S.Ct. 2521, 2528-29, 65 L.Ed.2d 581 (1980) (excluding all jurors affected by the prospect of the death penalty deprives defendant of right to an impartial jury). Parkus failed to raise this issue on direct appeal or in his Rule 29.15 proceedings, and does not allege sufficient cause to remove the bar. No miscarriage of justice would result from our failure to review this claim on the merits. 42