State v. Benedict
Annotate this CaseAfter a second jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of one count of sexual assault in the fourth degree. The Appellate Court affirmed, concluding that the trial court properly denied Defendant’s request to strike a juror for cause even when Defendant had shown that the juror was a police officer with possible ties to the agency investigating Defendant’s case. Defendant appealed, claiming that the challenged juror’s bias should have been conclusively presumed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that there was an insufficient factual basis for the trial court to find the type of close relationship between the challenged juror and a party or witness that would require disqualification as a matter of law, and therefore, the trial court did not err in denying Defendant’s challenge with respect to that juror.
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