The Appellate Group

State v. Taylor

State v. Taylor, 2025 UT App 14 (Christiansen Forster, J.)

Criminal

The Utah Court of Appeals held

  • The district court abused its discretion when it refused to strike two jurors for cause after both jurors demonstrated actual bias.
  • Judicial tip: It is the court’s responsibility to either strike a presumably biased juror or to investigate further to discover whether the juror can stand in “attitude of indifference between the parties.”

Read the full court opinion