Roderick Nash v. State

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I respectfully dissent from the majority’s holding that Appellant failed to preserve his complaint to the magistrate’s conducting voir dire. As the majority concedes, Appellant made a timely objection to the magistrate’s conducting voir dire and asked that a district judge preside over voir dire.1 I cannot disagree more strongly with the majority’s unfounded statement that the grounds of Appellant’s complaint “are not apparent from the context of his objection.”2 The grounds are abundantly apparent. The majority’s guess that the magistrate may not have been sufficiently familiar with the law…