Opinion ID: 1151655
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: masil l. roach

Text: The defendant contends the trial court erred in refusing to excuse this prospective juror for cause. He argues Mrs. Roach indicated she would be unable to consider the defense of intoxication as a mitigating factor in the penalty phase. Bourque asserts his argument against this prospective juror is different from the others whose challenges for cause were denied by the trial court. Instead of exercising a peremptory challenge against Mrs. Roach, defense counsel accepted her as a juror due to the fact the defense had only one peremptory challenge left at this time during jury selection. Since Bourque accepted this juror after his challenge for cause was rejected without exercising his remaining peremptory challenge, he has waived his right to assert this claim on appeal. See Fallon, 290 So.2d at 282.