United States Seventh Circuit

Where a prospective juror manifests a prior belief that is both material and contestable, and the judge must determine whether the juror is capable of suspending that belief for the duration of the trial or strike the potential juror for cause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/21/2001
• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/19/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rhodda Thompson (argued), Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David B. Ritter, Gregory E. Ostfeld (argued), Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.