"Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn." - Clarence Darrow 1936
"The change of a single juror in the composition of the jury could change the result." - Ter Keurst v. Miami Elevator Co., 486 So. 2d 547 (Fla. 1986), Justice Adkins, Dissenting
"Trial by jury is the best of all safeguards for the person and property of every individual." - Thomas Jefferson
Defense Counsel, in a criminal case, used all of his peremptory strikes, and then accepted the jury and an alternate. Before the jury was sworn, Counsel attempted to withdraw a strike previously used against a juror, and then backstrike another juror. The trial judge refused to permit this kind of “backstriking.”
March 15, 2006
Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.431(c)(1) was amended and became effective March 1, 2006, to provide a statutory basis for a challenge for cause against a potential juror who is related (within the third degree) to a Fabre Defendant. The new rule reads, in pertinent part:
March 1, 2006
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