During jury selection, prospective jurors Miller and Otis indicated that defendant's prior conviction would lead them to believe that defendant was guilty of the present crime. Faced with this expression of bias, the court was obligated, upon defendant's application, to discharge these jurors for cause unless a "personal, unequivocal assurance of impartiality" (People v Arnold,
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