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2 Jun 2016, 5:49 am
The amicus brief cited a study finding disparate strike rates of African-Americans by prosecutors in North Carolina capital trials, and described a North Carolina training for district attorneys that included a list of justifications to use in defending against Batson challenges. [read post]
27 May 2016, 8:00 am
In Lynch, in which the petitioner was sentenced to death in Arizona, the petition asks (1) whether, after the prosecution struck two minority jurors, the trial court adequately investigated racial discrimination under Batson v. [read post]
23 May 2016, 7:30 am
I think that the state attorneys who handle the collateral reviews (which may be the attorney general or the district attorney, depending on the state and whether the case is in state or federal court) need to do some triage on these cases. [read post]
20 May 2016, 9:08 am
Kentucky after the prosecution struck two minority jurors. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 3:30 pm
Ruling in the case of Batson v. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 8:35 am
Kansas’s attorney general argues, essentially, that other jury instructions make it clear “in context” that jurors may individually determine mitigating circumstances, and that the Eighth Amendment does not require that the standard of proof for mitigating circumstances be specified. [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 5:00 pm
It is a huge win for prosecuting violent crime generally and domestic violence in particular. [read post]
19 Jun 2015, 3:27 pm
The United States Attorney did not want the death penalty. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 4:47 pm
The exclusion of Ayala's attorney from part of the Batson hearing was harmless error. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 11:33 am
Instead, the real point of disagreement among the Justices was over how harmlessness should be assessed given the unusual nature of respondent Hector Ayala’s Batson claim – which focused on the trial court’s exclusion of Ayala or his counsel from the Batson proceedings, and rather than the underlying merits of the prosecution’s use of peremptory strikes that had the effect of excluding every black and Hispanic member of the jury pool. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 7:47 am
"Holding: Any federal constitutional error that may have occurred by excluding Ayala's attorney from part of the Batson hearing was harmless. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 3:12 pm
During Foster’s trial, defense attorneys attempted to use the Batson ruling to challenge the prosecution’s dismissal of black jurors. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 3:09 pm
Carpenter Attorney At Law. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 7:29 am
John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted cases. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 2:15 pm
Arguing for California, Deputy Attorney General Robin Urbanski jumped right to the heart of the state’s position: Although the California Supreme Court did provide an “adjudication on the merits,” that adjudication was not its conclusion that the trial court violated Batson (and its California state law analogue); rather, it was its determination that any Batson error was “harmless. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 7:57 am
The trial court overruled Chism’s Batson v. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 7:21 am
When Williams challenged the challenges under Batson v. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 7:05 pm
Adkins 13-85Issue: Whether, when a state court cites and applies the correct standard from Batson v. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 4:20 am
The defendants who were Hispanic, raised a Batson challenge once the prosecution used 4 out of 5 peremptory challenges on Hispanic jurors. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 2:20 pm
During the 1989 trial, Ayala's attorneys claim that the prosecution dismissed jurors based on their race. [read post]
