Does the voir dire of prospective jurors as to their views of the death penalty need to be sequestration?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Coleman, 251 Cal.Rptr. 83, 46 Cal.3d 749, 759 P.2d 1260 (Cal. 1988):
13 As is the required practice in California (Hovey v. Superior Court (1980) 28 Cal.3d 1, 80-81, 168 Cal.Rptr. 128, 616 P.2d 1301), the voir dire of prospective jurors as to their views of the death penalty was conducted individually and in sequestration, so that no member of the panel heard the responses of any other member to that portion of the voir dire.
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