State v. Stokes

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

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Guilt-Innocence Phase

Defendant assigns as error the trial judge’s denial of his motion to permit individual voir dire of the jury venire, to sequester the jury venire during the voir dire proceedings, and to sequester the trial jury after selection was completed. This motion was apparently addressed to the trial judge after the jury selection process had been underway for one day.

In support of this assignment of error, defendant first takes the position that the trial judge was bound by a pretrial order entered by Judge Llewellyn, which provided for individual voir dire…