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37 St. Mary's L.J. 477 (2005-2006)
Standefer v. State: The Creation of the Criminal Defendant's Diminished Right to a Trial by a Fair and Impartial Jury

handle is hein.journals/stmlj37 and id is 487 raw text is: COMMENTS STANDEFER v. STATE: THE CREATION OF THE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S DIMINISHED RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY ESPERANZA GUZMAN I. Introduction ............................................... 478 II. B ackground ............................................... 481 A. The Voir Dire Process and Its Relationship to the Sixth Am endm ent ..................................... 482 B. The Importance of Challenges for Cause and Peremptory Challenges in the Voir Dire Process ...... 484 C. The Types of Questions That Can Be Asked During the Voir Dire Process and the Problems That Have Arisen Since the Adoption of the Test in Standefer .... 486 III. Analyzing a Proper Voir Dire Question Prior to Standefer .................................................. 489 IV. The Current Test: Standefer v. State ....................... 491 A. The Two-Prong Test of Standefer ...................... 491 B. What Constitutes a Commitment Question? ........... 493 C. When Commitment Questions Are Improper .......... 495 D. The Saga Continues: Barajas v. State .................. 497 V. The Undesirable Effects of the Standefer Test ............. 501 A. Comparing the Criminal Defendant's Right to a Trial by a Fair and Impartial Jury with a Civil Defendant's Right to a Trial by a Fair and Impartial Jury .......... 503 B. The Impossible Guessing Game Generated by the Barajas D ecision ...................................... 507 V I. Proposal .................................................. 508 V II. Conclusion ................................................ 512

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