State v. Holden

WEBB, Justice.

Defendant brings forth three assignments of error relating to the “death qualification” of the jury. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to prohibit the district attorney from challenging for cause jurors opposed to the death sentence, and the trial court’s denial of his motion to seat jurors without regard to their opposition to the death penalty. Defendant further assigns error to the trial court’s allowing the district attorney to ask jurors if they would be unable to vote for a sentence of death.

Defendant argues that the trial court, by “death…