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Meanwhile the call to eliminate peremptory challenges has been gathering force.
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In criminal cases, the state has usually two peremptory challenges and the defendant five.
3
Jesse had used all his peremptory challenges on this jury.
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He'd given Jesse all the peremptory challenges he wanted.
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Lawyers typically get three peremptory challenges, but in this case each side was given 20.
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Both sides have a set number of peremptory challenges they can use to strike potential jurors.
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We have the right to fifteen peremptory challenges on a case like this, and so has the prosecution.
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In this way he was enabled to challenge several for cause, after all his peremptory challenges had been used.
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It is illegal to use peremptory challenges to eliminate potential jurors on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity or religion.
10
To compensate the defendant for whatever substantial disadvantage he might suffer, the number of his peremptory challenges was materially increased.
11
The low number of peremptory challenges and the high number of alternates brought objections from both the prosecution and the defense.
12
The early exhaustion of Keith's quota of peremptory challenges was significant, for McDougall rarely found it desirable to challenge at all!
13
If the offense is punishable with death or state prison for life, the state has in Minnesota seven peremptory challenges and the defendant twenty.
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Peremptory challenges were shouted to us from nowhere.
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Peremptory challenges, where lawyers strike potential jurors without stating a reason, are systematically used to distort jury demographics.
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Peremptory challenges and the selection of alternative panelists shall occur within 45 days of the request for the panel.
