During voir dire, a prospective juror denied he had ever been a victim of a crime. He was selected for the jury and the trial began. Thereafter, he remembered that he had, after all, been a crime victim and informed the judge. Defense counsel's motion to strike him from the panel and substitute the alternate was denied. We reverse.
The defense did not use all its peremptory challenges in this...
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