Court Opinion

ID: 9657034
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:11:24.946267+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:40.005139
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*404Concurring opinion by
Justice KELLER.
I join Parts I and III of the majority opinion, but concur only in the result reached in Part II, and I write separately in order to explain my views. Although I agree with the majority opinion’s conclusion that the trial court erred in failing to excuse Jurors No. 7 and 60 for cause, I find it significant that Juror No. 60 was removed with a peremptory challenge and did not sit on the jury. Accordingly, for reasons that I have explained previously in my dissenting opinions in Gamble v. Commonwealth, Ky., 68 S.W.3d 367, 374-5 (2002) and Stopher v. Commonwealth, Ky., 57 S.W.3d 787, 813-17 (2001), the trial court’s error in failing to excuse Juror No. 60 for cause was harmless. I concur in the majority opinion’s holding that reverses this case for a new trial, however, because Juror No. 7 did sit on the jury, and Appellants were thus prejudiced by the trial court’s erroneous failure to excuse Juror No. 7.