Preservation
Does the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause prohibit religious-based peremptory challenges during jury selection? We may never know, as the question was narrowly avoided today when the Florida Supreme Court decided, in State v. Pacchiana, that the issue was not properly preserved for appellate review. How specific must an objection be? It seems the answer is, in some cases, more specific even than the trial court needs to determine the nature of the error.
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