AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Equal Protection Clause, Marsden Motion, Putative Father
2 Oct 2020
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F: mother sought paternity and child support from the putative father to eliminate nine of the ten men who were in the jury pool jeb used a peremptory to strike a tenth man in the pool. The constitution"s guarantee of equal protection bars the exclusion on the basis o their sex, it just as it bars exclusion on the basis of race. Recusal when the likelihood of bias on part of judge is too high to be constitutionally tolerable. F: one of the justices on the pn supreme court had been to da who gave his official approval to seek death penalty against williams. D, wiliams, filed a motion to recuse this justice from hearing his ase before penn supreme court. The justice in questio denied recual motion and participated in the decision to deny relief. Right of self-representation right of d to be present at trial. Marsden motion client was a different attorney/wants their attorney excused by the court.
