State v. Singletary

Defendant was indicted, convicted by a jury and sentenced for committing an armed robbery of an employee of a Paterson tavern. When brought to trial, he endeavored through his attorney to secure a jury which would be, to his satisfaction, as fair and impartial as possible within the limits of the rules governing the selection of juries in criminal trials. His rights in this respect, however, were severely curtailed when, close to the end of the voir dire procedure, the trial judge turned down defendant’s *72reasonable request to excuse for cause a prospective juror who had less than three weeks…