Does voir dire need to ask jurors' drug history?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Floyd, 110 F.3d 71 (9th Cir. 1997):
In addition, "[t]he district judge has discretion in conducting voir dire and we will not find reversible error unless the questions asked or procedures used were so unreasonable as to constitute an abuse." United States v. Boise, 916 F.2d 497, 504 (9th Cir.1990). Here, the district court's inquiry into the jurors' drug histories was not "so unreasonable" as to require reversal. See id.
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