State v. Allen

hi concur in the majority’s decision to deny the writ. I write separately to note I am disturbed by the pattern of this particular district judge categorically denying parties their statutory right to exercise backstrikes. We found that this particular trial judge legally erred in denying a defendant his right to exercise backstrikes in State v. Lewis 1 and sinee our decision in Lewis, the instant writ application now presents to us a third occasion to review precisely the same issue.2 In my view, this practice amounts to defiance of the clear, unambiguous, and above all, mandatory language…