Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and incomplete answers during voir dire regarding his or her knowledge and familiarity with the defendant and the case.
2. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member has a personal firsthand eyewitness account of the defendant's whereabouts during a time-period relevant to the state's case, thereby considering extraneous evidence during guilt and penalty phase deliberations.
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and incomplete answers during voir dire