Hall v. Banc One Management Corp.

{¶ 1} The issue presented in this appeal concerns whether a trial court, while empaneling a jury, may exercise discretion to deny a statutory challenge that the legislature has stated constitutes good cause to excuse a prospective juror. Upon review, we conclude that the statutory challenges for cause catalogued in R.C. 2313.42(A) through (I) consist of objectively verifiable facts and conclusions, which, if found valid by the court, require the court to excuse the prospective juror and thereby preclude the exercise of judicial discretion to seat that prospective juror. R.C. 2313.42(J),…