What is the test for making a peremptory challenge at a jury trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Barnes, 604 F.2d 121 (2nd Cir. 1979):
A defendant "cannot be compelled to make a peremptory challenge until . . . an opportunity (has been given) for such inspection and examination of (each proposed juror) as is required for the due administration of justice." Pointer v. United States, supra, 151 U.S. at 408-09, 14 S.Ct. at 415. The result of this requirement has been that "(t)he Voir dire in American trials tends to be extensive and probing, operating
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