Kent v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Three defendants appeal their convictions of a total of five counts of simple battery. Held:

Defendants contend that the trial court erred in refusing to dismiss from the jury panel for cause two or more correctional officers. It has been held to be error to refuse to dismiss for cause full-time police officers because “[i]t is inherent in the nature of police duties and the closeness with which such officers are identified with criminal procedures that questions regarding possible bias, fairness, prejudice or impermissible influence upon jury deliberations inevitably…