OSCN Found Document:Challenge for Implied Bias
Title 22. Criminal Procedure

Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
  Title 22. Criminal Procedure
    Chapter 8 - Juries
        Section 660 - Challenge for Implied Bias
Cite as: O.S. §, __ __


A challenge for implied bias may be taken for all or any of the following cases, and for no other:

1. Consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree, inclusive, to the person alleged to be injured by the offense charged or on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted, or to the defendant.

2. Standing in the relation of guardian and ward, attorney and client, master and servant, or landlord and tenant, or being a member of the family of the defendant, or of the person alleged to be injured by the offense charged, or on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted, or in his employment on wages.

3. Being a party adverse to the defendant in a civil action, or having complained against, or been accused by him in a criminal prosecution.

4. Having served on the grand jury which found the indictment, or on a coroner's jury which inquired into the death of a person whose death is the subject of the prosecution.

5. Having served on a trial jury which has tried another person for the offense charged in the indictment or information.

6. Having been one of the jury formerly sworn to try the indictment or information and whose verdict was set aside, or which was discharged without a verdict, after the cause was submitted to it.

7. Having served as a juror in a civil action brought against the defendant for the act charged as an offense.

8. If the offense charged be punishable with death, the entertaining of such conscientious opinions as would preclude his finding the defendant guilty of, in which case he shall neither be permitted nor compelled to serve as a juror.

Historical Data


R.L. 1910, § 5859.

Citationizer® Summary of Documents Citing This Document
Cite Name Level
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Cases
 CiteNameLevel
 1977 OK CR 58, 560 P.2d 1003, RUSSELL v. STATECited
 2011 OK CR 6, 248 P.3d 918, HARMON v. STATEDiscussed
 2011 OK CR 12, 252 P.3d 221, UNDERWOOD v. STATECited
 2011 OK CR 17, 254 P.3d 684, CODDINGTON v. STATEDiscussed
 2011 OK CR 21, 259 P.3d 833, CODDINGTON v. STATECited
 2011 OK CR 30, 267 P.3d 114, POSTELLE v. STATEDiscussed
 2013 OK CR 14, 306 P.3d 557, SMITH v. STATEDiscussed
 2000 OK CR 5, 995 P.2d 510, 71 OBJ 427, Powell v. StateCited
 1975 OK CR 132, 538 P.2d 1061, STOTT v. STATEDiscussed
 1966 OK CR 62, 414 P.2d 720, APPLICATION OF SHARPCited
 1975 OK CR 172, 542 P.2d 598, JUSTUS v. STATEDiscussed
 1969 OK CR 180, 456 P.2d 549, KOONCE v. STATEDiscussed
 1982 OK CR 6, 640 P.2d 533, BURROWS v. STATEDiscussed
 1982 OK CR 131, 650 P.2d 863, COOK v. STATEDiscussed
 1983 OK CR 54, 663 P.2d 738, GLIDEWELL v. STATEDiscussed
 1983 OK CR 57, 665 P.2d 1186, DAVIS v. STATEDiscussed
 1972 OK CR 196, 500 P.2d 582, WRIGHT v. STATECited
 1972 OK CR 249, 501 P.2d 891, GIBSON v. STATEDiscussed at Length
 1983 OK CR 169, 675 P.2d 142, ALLISON v. STATEDiscussed
 1985 OK CR 105, 707 P.2d 35, ROUBIDEAUX v. STATEDiscussed
 1987 OK CR 210, 743 P.2d 148, HARDEMAN v. STATECited
Citationizer: Table of Authority
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None Found.