Legal Opinion

State v. Patterson

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 19, 2013No. 2012-K-2042PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WEIMER, Justice.1

LWe granted certiorari in this case to consider whether, following a district court ruling prohibiting the defendant from exercising a peremptory challenge to back strike a provisionally selected juror in vio*808lation of La.C.Cr.P. art. 799.1, the court of appeal appropriately applied a harmless error analysis to conclude that the error in denying the back strike was not harmless. Finding the court of appeal correctly applied a harmless error analysis to the facts of this case, we affirm the decision below.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On November 6, 2008, defendant, Jeremy…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Sullivan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1995
  4. State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1996
  5. State v. SnyderSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1999

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. State v. LewisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2013
  2. State v. FrithLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
  3. State v. CarterLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2013
  4. State v. DanastasioLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
  5. State v. RossLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014

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