Court Opinion

ID: 7474890
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 03:47:15.052761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:22:54.666643
License: Public Domain

CALOGERO., Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the affirmance of this defendant’s conviction and sentence, but I disagree with the majority’s handling of Assignment of Error No. 2. While the trial court did indeed excuse fourteen jurors for cause, allegedly because they indicated that they could not vote for the imposition of capital punishment despite the evidence of guilt presented by the state, the record reveals that defense counsel acquiesced in those rulings by the trial court. No objection, based upon either Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968), or upon Article 798(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, was made by defense counsel at the time the jurors were excused. Accordingly, defendant cannot avail himself of this alleged error on appeal. Art. 841, C.Cr.P. See State v. Watts, La., 320 So.2d 146, decision rendered this date.