Justice SCOTT delivered the Opinion of the Court.
In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether a criminal defendant who exhausts all of his peremptory challenges and uses one of those challenges to exclude a juror the trial court erroneously failed to excuse for bias is unduly prejudiced and, on conviction, entitled to a new trial. We conclude that he is. Accordingly, we affirm the court of appeals opinion reversing the jury verdict and granting a new trial...
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