Court Opinion

ID: 9845420
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:21:36.269083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:07.093020
License: Public Domain

Hill, Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in the majority opinion and add this comment only to point out what, I understand, the opinion does not hold. The majority opinion holds that at a trial based on a single cause of action against multiple defendants not entitled to severance as a matter of law, it was error to award the defendants a total of more peremptory strikes than were allowed to the plaintiff. Neither the majority opinion nor the cited cases hold that at a trial against *24multiple defendants it would be error to grant additional peremptory strikes to the defendants matched by an equal number of additional strikes granted to the plaintiff (see fn. 1 to the majority opinion). Because the majority opinion does not limit the trial judge’s discretion to allow an equal number of additional strikes to both plaintiff on the one hand and defendants on the other, I join the opinion.