People v. Barrett

Summary

The court affirmed defendant's convictions and death judgment. It held that defendant forfeited his blanket challenge to correctional employees serving as jurors and, alternatively, that the trial court properly required individualized bias assessments; it also rejected claims involving precharging delay, prosecutorial misconduct, and admission of defendant's violent-character evidence. The court concluded that defendant failed to establish actual prejudice from the charging delay or misconduct and that the trial court acted within its discretion in admitting rebuttal character evidence.