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22 Feb 2024, 2:01 pm by Melody McDonald Lanier
“I can tell you that I have seen a lot of things in the last 50-plus years,” he said.Some of the experiences that stand out, he said, include not having a single minority on any of his juries from 1976 to 1986 because prosecutors used their preemptory strike to dismiss minority jurors – a practice now unconstitutional thanks in part to the Batson v. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 11:27 am by John Elwood
Finney, 23-203Issues: (1) Whether the 14th Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors; (2) whether a violation under Batson v. [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
If the battle to root out racial prejudice in capital cases is ever to be won, it will require that we not turn a blind eye to cases like Warren King’s.That case also offers the Court a chance to send a clear message about the seriousness with which it takes violations of its 1986 Batson v. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 8:05 pm by John Elwood
Dillion Gage Compton, who is  Black, was convicted of murdering a white female corrections officer and sentenced to death. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 6:41 am by Alex Phipps
Moving to the actual Batson analysis, the court examined the questioning of white jurors along with the black juror who triggered the Batson objection. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The jury that convicted him was composed of 11 white people and one Black person.As Justice Sotomayor noted, “During jury selection in this case, petitioner Tony Terrell Clark twice raised Batson challenges based on a pattern of racial disparities in the prosecution’s strikes. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 2:21 pm by John Elwood
Mississippi, 22-6057Issues: (1) Whether Mississippi continues in the present case to erroneously misapply Batson v. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 9:11 am by Barry Barnett
” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/barry-barnett-8313014_findings-and-conclusions-in-us-v-american-activity-7066821377835626497-6QFM? [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 7:49 am by Alex Phipps
During jury selection, defense counsel raised an objection under Batson v. [read post]
27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court’s 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 8:29 am by Eugene Volokh
"] Ilya Shapiro, as many of you know, was suspended and investigated by the Georgetown law school—where he had been about to start a job as a lecturer and as executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution—for tweeting the following about the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination: Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:32 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
If you strike too many white or black or male or female jurors, the other side will make a Batson challenge, named after a Supreme Court case from 1986 that says the lawyer seeking to strike these jurors must advance a race or gender neutral reason for his choices. [read post]