Court Opinion

ID: 9553230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:25:53.656364+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:30:25.024826
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DURHAM, Justice,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in Justice Howe’s opinion except for the section labeled “Death Qualifying the Jury.” With respect to that analysis, I continue to rely on the position I took in State v. Young, 853 P.2d 327 (Utah 1993) (Durham, J., dissenting):
Given the dual forms of conviction-proneness that death qualification causes, both from the impact of the process on those jurors who survive it and from the exclusion of an entire class of potential jurors, I would hold that death qualification prior to the guilt phase violates the Utah Constitution, article I, sections 7, 10, and 12.
Id. at 394.
HALL, J., acted on this ease prior to his retirement.