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PROCEDURE USED TO EXCUSE PROSPECTIVE JURORS ON HARDSHIP GROUNDS WAS NOT A MODE OF PROCEEDINGS ERROR; FAILURE TO OBJECT TO PROSECUTOR’S APPEAL TO GENDER BIAS DID NOT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Pigott, over an extensive dissenting opinion by Judge Rivera, determined the procedure used by the trial judge to excuse prospective jurors on hardship grounds was not a mode of proceedings error warranting reversal in the absence of preservation. At the outset of jury selection, the judge told the prospective jurors the trial might take five days. Anyone who felt they could not sit for five days was then allowed to leave the courtroom with the clerk who would evaluate the extent of the hardship.  The Court of Appeals held the hardship questioning occurred prior to formal voir dire and did not concern a prospective juror's fitness to serve, thereby distinguishing cases where the judge was absent during formal voir dire. The Court of Appeals further determined defense counsel's failure to object to the prosecutor's remarks in summation which appealed to gender bias did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel. The defendant in this assault /burglary case was a woman, as was the victim. The victim's boyfriend was the father of defendant's children. To counter the defendant's argument that the attacker was a male, the prosecutor told the jury the case was about “jealousy” and “obsession” and “only a woman” would inflict “this kind of injury.” With respect to the juror-hardship issue, the court explained:

Preservation is particularly important in a case like this because the defense, faced with the prospect that certain prospective jurors were claiming that they were unable to serve due to hardship, may very well have made a strategic decision not to challenge the procedure because he did not want to risk having those prospective jurors end up on the jury when it became apparent that they did not wish to serve. If defense counsel had an objection to the procedure employed by the trial court, he should have voiced it so that the court could have corrected any alleged error. People v King, 2016 NY Slip Op 02278, CtApp 3-29-16

CRIMINAL LAW (ALLOWING CLERK TO EVALUATE JURORS' REQUESTS TO BE EXCUSED ON HARDSHIP GROUNDS WAS NOT A MODE OF PROCEEDINGS ERROR)/APPEALS (CRIMINAL LAW, ALLOWING CLERK TO EVALUATE JURORS' REQUEST TO BE EXCUSED FROM SITTING ON HARDSHIP GROUNDS WAS NOT A MODE OF PROCEEDINGS ERROR)/ATTORNEYS (FAILURE TO OBJECT TO PROSECUTOR'S APPEAL TO GENDER BIAS DID NOT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE)/INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL (FAILURE TO OBJECT TO PROSECUTOR'S APPEAL TO GENDER BIAS DID NOT CONSTITUTE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE)

March 29, 2016/by CurlyHost
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