Court Opinion

ID: 9769744
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 15:01:21.455985+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:07.593286
License: Public Domain

COOPER, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the result reached by the majority and with its analysis of the issues with one exception. I would not characterize the tidal judge’s failure to disclose the information volunteered to him by a juror during recess as “harmless error.” Rather, I would characterize the incident as “no error.” The juror neither made a misstatement nor withheld requested information during voir dire, Johnson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 892 S.W.2d 558, 563 (1994), but simply reiterated to the judge the same information previously given to counsel by his failure to affirmatively respond to the voir dire question. I find no error in the trial judge’s failure to interrupt the jury selection process to advise counsel that a juror had responded truthfully during voir dire.
GRAVES, J., joins this concurring opinion.