Court Opinion

ID: 9433897
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:41:37.952421+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:44.771263
License: Public Domain

Justice Souter,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the Court. I write only to suggest that this ease does not present the issue whether it is reversible error to refuse to afford a defendant a peremptory challenge beyond the maximum otherwise allowed, when he has used a peremptory challenge to cure an erroneous denial of a challenge for cause and when he shows that he would *318otherwise use his full complement of peremptory challenges for the noneurative purposes that are the focus of the peremptory right. Martinez-Salazar did not show that, if he had not used his peremptory challenge curatively, he would have used it peremptorily against another juror. He did not ask for a makeup peremptory or object to any juror who sat. Martinez-Salazar simply made a choice to use his peremptory challenge curatively.