The following excerpt is from Raybon v. Hardy, No. 2:12-cv-01008-GEB-EFB (E.D. Cal. 2016):
3. Seven (7) jurors will be selected using the "struck jury" system. The struck jury system is "designed to allow both the [plaintiff] and the defen[dant] a maximum number of peremptory challenges. The venire . . . start[s] with about [18] potential jurors, from which the [plaintiff] and the [defendant] alternate[] with strikes until a petite panel of [seven] jurors remain[s]." Powers v Ohio, 499 U.S. 400, 404-05 (1991); see also United States v. Esparza-Gonzalez, 422 F.3d 897,
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899 (9th Cir. 2005) (discussing the "struck jury" system).
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