Is a juror who has had negative contact with the criminal justice system entitled to be excused?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Fellows, B280629 (Cal. App. 2018):
Negative contact with the criminal justice system is a valid reason for a prosecutor to excuse a juror. (People v. Garcia (2011) 52 Cal.4th 706, 748; see Lewis and Oliver, supra, 39 Cal.4th at pp. 1010-1011 [prosecutor expressed race-neutral grounds for dismissing African-American male whose half brother had been incarcerated, and who reported being stopped by police on false pretenses].)
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