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Appeals court weighs claims of juror exclusion based on national origin and delayed evidence disclosure
Summary
Emma Quinn Judge, counsel for Ephraim Jean, argued the trial court erred by asking a prospective juror a national‑origin question and excluding the juror for cause, and she pressed the appellate panel to reverse on that and related disclosure errors.
Emma Quinn Judge, counsel for Ephraim Jean, told the panel that the jury selection error in his trial was rooted in a national‑origin question that should never have been asked and that the juror’s subsequent exclusion was structural error. “For his national origin, the juror would not have been excluded for cause,” Quinn Judge said, arguing the question asked the juror essentially whether he would be more uncomfortable judging the defendant because both were Haitian and that the line of questioning denied the defendant a jury of his peers.
Quinn Judge urged the court to treat the error as…
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