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Anyone charged with a crime in Florida has the right to have a fair and impartial jury of his or her peers determine guilt. The state\u2019s Fourth District Court of Appeals recently explained<\/a> in a sex crime case that jurors who make clear during the jury selection process that they can\u2019t give the person charged a fair shake should be left off the jury.The defendant was charged with a variety of crimes, including sexual activity with a child, lewd or lascivious molestation of a child over the age of 12 but under the age of 16, lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12, sexual performance by a child, and showing obscene material to a child. At trial, his lawyers planned to argue that the defendant gave a false confession to the crimes when he was interviewed by the police as a suspect. One lawyer asked prospective jurors during the jury selection process whether they believe people confess to crimes they didn\u2019t commit. The trial judge allowed two jurors to serve, although they expressed skepticism about false confessions, and the defendant’s lawyer asked for them to be removed from the jury pool.<\/p>\n

The first juror said he did not believe a person would make a false confession. Even someone who did falsely confess to a crime probably was involved in the crime somehow, the juror said. \u201cI think your question was\u00a0would they agree to admitting to a crime that they did not commit and my answer to that would be no,\u201d he said. The second juror also said it was hard to believe that a person would confess to a crime that he or she did not commit. \u201cSomething of this nature would just be very unreasonable for someone to admit guilt to,\u201d he said. The juror later said a person would have to be \u201ccrazy\u201d to wrongly confess to the kind of sex crimes with which the defendant was charged. He was eventually convicted of the crimes following trial.<\/p>\n

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