Court Opinion

ID: 9570459
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:23:23.801029+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:08:52.661084
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Fletcher, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the majority’s affirmance of the Georgia Court of Appeals. I write separately because I believe that the well-reasoned opinion of the Court of Appeals did not establish a per se rule and is not contrary to the opinion I authored in Cohen v. Baxter.2 Furthermore, I disagree with the majority that the trial court prevented the plaintiff from developing competent evidence of bias. The Court of Appeals was correct that the responses given by the juror were sufficient to show that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to excuse the juror for cause.
I am authorized to state that Justice Hunstein joins in this special concurrence.

 267 Ga. 422 (479 SE2d 746) (1997).