Supreme Court of California

Code of Civil Procedure section 232 requires prospective jurors to take the jurors' oath before answering the written questionnaires, but failure to do so may not substantially prejudice a capital defendant where questionnaires were signed under penalty of perjury and proper voir dire taken.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/17/2001
• Published 05/17/2001

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Marc D. Stolman, Tiburon, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, William G. Prahl and Mathew Chan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.