The right of peremptory challenge is a legal right in jury selection for the attorneys to reject a certain number of potential jurors or judges without...

challenging the registration status of voters Euphemism for disability Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors from jury duty A procedure or action...

United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid...

Peremptory challenges of judges, which is in use in 17 states where each party gets the chance to pass on the judge selected and can still challenge the...

Look up peremptory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peremptory can refer to any of the following concepts in law: Peremptory challenge Peremptory norm...

Unlike a peremptory challenge (the number of which are limited by the court during voir dire, and unless a Batson challenge is raised the challenge is automatically...

allows three peremptory challenges per side unless there is more than one accused in which case the prosecution can peremptorily challenge three times...

may have an opportunity to mount a challenge for cause argument or use one of a limited number of peremptory challenges. In some jurisdictions that have...

whites. As of 2014, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a peremptory challenge based on perceived sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Jurors...

C-75 in response to the Colten Boushie case. Bill C-75 eliminated peremptory challenges of jurors in criminal cases, thereby preventing the exclusion of...

can be challenged, and may not serve. This must be done before the oath is taken, and on limited grounds. Peremptory challenges, or challenges without...

make "challenges for cause" and "peremptory challenges" to remove jurors. Traditionally the removal of jurors based on a peremptory challenge required...

strikes, which resulted in a Batson challenge by the defense (Batson v. Kentucky (1986) established that peremptory challenge cannot be used to discriminate...

power of defendants to dismiss potential jurors as part of their peremptory challenge rights granted as early as 1215 in the Magna Charta document. This...

thirty-five peremptory challenges in cases of treason, but only twenty in cases of felony and none in cases of misdemeanours; all peremptory challenges, however...

to peremptory challenges by prosecutors in capital and treason cases—the Crimes Act controlled, and thus prosecutors were to be given no peremptory challenges...

is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors during a series of Mississippi criminal trials...

became the trial judge after defense attorney Ellen Leonida made a peremptory challenge against judge Mary Ann O'Malley on the grounds that the jurist was...

always entails an expert's assistance in the attorney's use of peremptory challenges—the right to reject a certain number of potential jurors without...

have a specific number of arbitrary dismissals, or unconditional peremptory challenge, which does not require specific reasons. The judge can also dismiss...

moment for this community and this country". Legislation eliminating peremptory challenges from jury selection was enacted in 2019 and upheld by the Supreme...

Supreme Court decision Batson v. Kentucky, prosecutors could use the peremptory challenge to arbitrarily exclude individuals from a jury based solely on their...

motivated use of peremptory challenges. There are three steps to a Batson inquiry. First, the party opposing the use of a peremptory challenge must make a...

Asking a question unrelated to an intelligent exercise of a peremptory challenge or challenge for cause: if opposing counsel asks such a question during...

abortion Hernandez v. New York 500 U.S. 352 (1991) prosecutor may use peremptory challenge against bilingual Latino jurors based on his doubts about the ability...

jurors is to use peremptory challenges, which cannot be rejected by the judge. However, attorneys can only use peremptory challenges for a limited number...

trial on the basis of Sharon's defense having been denied adequate peremptory challenges during jury selection in her trial. Sharon was denied an opportunity...

Diego, California in April 1985. At trial, the prosecution used peremptory challenges to strike all Black and Hispanic jurors who were available for jury...

challenge a conviction because a challenge for cause was denied incorrectly if they had the opportunity to use peremptory challenges. In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado...

any challenge. The prosecution and defense initially possess one peremptory challenge to members of the court-martial. The accused may also challenge a...