Trim v. Shepard

Blackwell, Justice.

Cortez McClain, Walter Simon, and Anthony Gene Trim were tried by a Gwinnett County jury and convicted of several crimes in connection with an attempted robbery.1 At trial, there was a dispute about the qualification of a prospective juror, whose daughter previously had been prosecuted in Gwinnett County for an armed robbery During voir dire, the prospective juror expressed her discomfort with serving on the jury, explaining that the same prosecuting attorney had been involved in her daughter’s case, and noting that her daughter had been represented in that case by the…