Hicks v. Commonwealth

In Ice v. Commonwealth and McQueen v. Commonwealth, both rendered February 16,1984,1 have protested against indifference to jury selection that included jurors obviously biased. I continue to urge this Court to realize the importance of the constitutional right to a neutral jury — the “impartial jury” guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section XI of the Kentucky Constitution.

Appellant has been found guilty of murder and given a life sentence. The uncon-tradicted evidence presented on the motion for new trial was that one member of the jury stated during…