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COMMENTS ALLEGEDLY MADE BY A JUROR DURING DELIBERATIONS EXPRESSING ETHNIC BIAS REQUIRED A HEARING AND FINDINGS WHETHER DEFENDANT’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE, WERE VIOLATED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department remitted the matter for a hearing on defendant’s motion to vacate the judgment, Defendant’s motion included an affidavit from the jury foreperson alleging a juror exhibited ethnic bias during deliberations:

The People consent to this matter being remanded for a hearing to determine whether ethnic bias tainted the jury’s deliberations as alleged by defendant (see PeÑa-Rodriguez v Colorado, – US -, 137 S Ct 855 [2017]; People v Leonti , 262 NY 256 [1933]). Defendant’s CPL 440 motion included an affidavit from the jury foreperson, in which he swore that, during deliberations, a juror made ethnic comments concerning defendant and the complainant exhibiting “overt [ethnic] bias that cast serious doubt on the fairness and impartiality of the jury’s deliberations and resulting verdict” (PeÑa-Rodriguez , – US -, 137 S Ct at 869).

At the hearing, the court should determine the veracity of these allegations. Should the court find these allegations to be true, it should determine, as a matter of federal law, whether defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to jury trial was denied because “[ethnic] animus was a significant motivating factor in the juror’s vote to convict” … . The court should also determine more broadly, as a matter of New York State law, whether the juror’s statements “created a substantial risk of prejudice to the rights of the defendant by coloring the views of the other jurors as well as her own” … . People v Chodakowski, 2021 NY Slip Op 06781, First Dept 12-2-21

 

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