Legal Opinion
People v. Hussein
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 1991PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Stephen G. Crane, J.
The defendants move to dismiss their respective indictments for failure to voir dire the grand jurors. They argue that the integrity of the Grand Juries was undermined by the omission of questioning to ascertain whether the grand jurors could be *120fair and impartial and base their votes solely on the evidence. The voir dire supposedly would have revealed whether they would be influenced by their emotions concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by ethnic bias or by the publicity allegedly surrounding the "Palestinian-American” demonstration at the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Castaneda v. PartidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Beck v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Hill v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- People v. GoetzNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- United States v. DioguardiDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1971
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3Cited by2 opinions
- In re the Grand Jury Investigation of the Death of DialloNew York Supreme Court · 1999
- People v. RobertsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993