Turner v. Kemna

The Supreme Court declined to review Turner's challenge to the trial court's refusal to remove two prospective jurors for cause. The Court did not decide the merits of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment claims.

For Turner, the lower-court result remains in place. Other defendants do not receive a new Supreme Court answer on when a juror must be removed for possible bias.

The Supreme Court has finished action on this docket. The lower-court result remains in effect.

The Court declined to review the case. It did not decide whether the trial court wrongly kept either challenged juror.

Turner remains subject to the lower-court result. Other criminal defendants receive no new nationwide rule from this case about removing jurors for cause.

The Supreme Court docket action is complete. The lower-court result stays in place.