How many peremptory challenges are allotted an indicted defendant? A table is provided by statute; the number is determined by the "highest crime charged." What if the sole and highest crime charged is legally insufficient and survives only by virtue of a viable lesser included crime? Which one determines the number, the moribund greater or the viable lesser? This is the interesting and novel...
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