Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Salinas Mestiza v. Johnson

531 U.S. 1194

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
2001-02-26
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • "reviewing court should accord great deference to the trial judge's determination and should not attempt to reconstruct the voir dire by a microscopic dissection of the transcript in search of magic words or phrases that automatically signify the jurors' qualification or disqualification."
  • prospective jurors who expressly agree to consider both life and death sentences and to consider any mitigating evidence are not properly excused for cause

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.