Opinion

People v. Le Doux

  • 155 Cal. 535
  • 102 P. 517
  • 1909 Cal. LEXIS 461
Court
California Supreme Court
Filed
May 19, 1909
Status
Published
On the bench
Angellotti, Beatty, Henshaw, Shaw
Cited by
62 cases
Authority
More cited than 35.0%

Overruled by People v. Cahan, 44 Cal. 2d 434 (1955)

Later courts went against this

  • Overruled by People v. Cahan, 44 Cal. 2d 434 (1955)

    People v. Le Doux, 155 Cal. 535 [102 P. 517]; People v. Mayen, 188 Cal. 237 [205 P. 435, 24 A.L.R. 1383], and the cases based thereon are therefore overruled.† We have been compelled to reach that conclusion because other remedies have completely failed to seeureremnpliance with the constitutional provisions on the part of police officers with the attendant result that the courts under th
    California Supreme CourtApr 27, 1955Read it

The opinion

I dissent from that portion of the foregoing opinion which is numbered "1," and also dissent from the order denying a rehearing.

Assuming that the challenge to the panel was well based, I believe that under the circumstances shown by the record, the objection should be held to have been waived. It appears that five members of the special panel were selected to complete the jury, seven jurors having been selected from the previous panel properly drawn and summoned. To my mind, appellant's objection practically amounts to no more than that these five jurors so selected from the special panel should not have been allowed to act, for the sole reason that they were not properly selected and brought into court. It affirmatively appears, however, that after the challenge to the panel was disallowed, the defendant participated in the examination of the individual jurors composing the same, passed without objection or challenge each of the five jurors ultimately taken from said panel to complete the jury, and allowed such jurors to be sworn to try the case without exercising the right of peremptory challenge as to any of them, although she then had nine unused peremptory challenges. Under these circumstances, I believe that she should be held to have waived her objections so far as these five jurors were concerned. To my mind the principle applicable is that stated in People v. Durrant, 116 Cal. 196 , 197, [ 48 P. 75 ].

Sloss, J., concurred in the dissenting opinion.

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