A rarely utilized federal statute requiring all federal jurors to be literate may win a new trial for two former Georgia educators convicted two years ago of child pornography. During jury selection in the 1997 trial, defense lawyers demanded U.S. District Judge Duross Fitzpatrick refused to strike one potential juror after the panelist professed that he couldn't read everything on the jury questionnaire. Now, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals has held that Fitzpatrick was wrong.
August 11, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
MACON — A rarely utilized federal statute requiring all federal jurors tobe literate may win a new trial for two former Georgia educators convictedtwo years ago of child pornography.
During jury selection in the 1997 trial of Lonnie A. Young and StephenA. Carruthers, defense lawyers demanded U.S. District Judge Duross Fitzpatrickstrike one potential juror for cause after the panelist professed thathe couldn’t read everything on the jury questionnaire.
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