PEOPLE v. BLACK

No. S206928.

58 Cal.4th 912 (2014)

169 Cal. Rptr. 3d 363

320 P.3d 800

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHARLES ALEX BLACK Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 27, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L.S. Angres , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón and Bruce Ortega , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

CHIN, J.

During voir dire, the trial court denied defendant's challenges to two prospective jurors on incompetence grounds (i.e., grounds that rendered them removable for cause). Following those denials, defendant used two of his allotted peremptory challenges to remove the same jurors. Defendant ultimately exhausted his peremptory challenges. He then asked the trial court to grant him extra peremptory challenges to remove two...

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