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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.”
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