Pryor v. Hoskins

I agree that the refusal of the trial court to honor the truckers’ peremptory challenge of Ms. Ivy requires reversal and remand for a new trial. However, in doing so, I would proffer a slightly different analysis of the three-pronged basis for the challenge.

The challenge was made upon three grounds:(1) Ivy’s statement that because of two incidents, truck drivers “[are] not my favorite.” Tr. at 33.(2) Ivy recalled knowing Hoskins’s children who sang in Ivy’s church choir and thought of them as social acquaintances.(3) Because Ivy and Hoskins were both very active in their churches, Ivy might…