What is the test for the exclusion of some potential jurors for cause in a murder trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Babbitt, 248 Cal.Rptr. 69, 45 Cal.3d 660, 755 P.2d 253 (Cal. 1988):
Defendant contends that the exclusion of some potential jurors for cause in accord with Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968) 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (exclusion of jurors unalterably opposed to the death penalty) denied him a jury representative of a fair cross-section of the community and denied him an impartial jury on the issue of guilt.
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