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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The weekly edition is now available. From the intro: Leading off this week is another capital GVR.    In Thaler v. Anthony Haynes the Court held “that a trial judge need not personally observe a potential juror?s behavior in deciding later whether that juror was denied a seat on the panel because of race, despite the prosecutor?s claim that she was excluded because of her demeanor under questioning.  No prior ruling of the Court, the Justices said in an unsigned, apparently unanimous opinion, requires that the judge have been on hand during jury selection in order to evaluate a claimed violation of Batson v. Kentucky, when the use of a peremptory strike was based on a claim of juror demeanor.” Elsewhere, the Office of Capital Writs, created by the Texas Legislature in 2009, is looking for a director of its Austin Office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).