Can a jury at a civil trial exclude all uniformed officers from the jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The PEOPLE v. HOWARD St., A120412, No. 152819 (Cal. App. 2010):
possibility that seeing large numbers of uniformed officers among the spectators would somehow influence the jury. The concerns expressed by Cummings were not sufficient to establish that excluding all uniformed officers was essential to a fair trial, and the record does not support his claim of actual prejudice." (People v. Cummings, supra, 4 Cal.4th at pp. 1298-1299.)
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