Court Opinion

ID: 9796173
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:51:06.444882+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:49:02.147621
License: Public Domain

A. JOHNSON, Judge,
concurs:
¶ 1 I concur in the opinion and write separately only in response to the position set forth in note 19.
¶ 2 There is no doubt that jury questionnaires and individual voir dire, when properly employed, are important tools in creating the right jury to decide a particular case. Certainly the use of those tools should be favored in all capital cases where a mistake is costly to remedy, if it can be remedied at all.
¶ 3 I believe, however, that the exact process of fitting a jury to a particular case is best left to the trial court and its consideration of the available venire on the one hand, and the circumstances of the ease for trial on the other. I would not agree, therefore, that individual sequestered voir dire should be mandated in every capital case.