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JONES v. TRANSIT AUTH.

126 Misc.2d 585 (1984)

Annie Jones, Plaintiff, v. New York City Transit Authority, Defendant.

Civil Court of the City of New York, New York County.

December 17, 1984

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer Schulman and Newman, O'Malley & Epstein (Lawrence Epstein of counsel), for plaintiff. Richard K. Bernard and Theodore Friedman for defendant.

DAVID B. SAXE, J.

There is an intensifying national concern regarding the issue of whether blind and deaf persons should serve as jurors.1 In this case, a personal injury matter involving substantial amounts of physical evidence, a blind person was sought to be excluded from jury service through the use of a challenge for cause based solely on his blindness. The issue that I must decide is whether his exclusion was improper...

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