State v. Pruitt, A-1343-11T2; Appellate Division; opinion by Haas, J.S.C., temporarily assigned; decided and approved for publication April 23, 2013. Before Judges Sapp-Peterson, Haas and Happas. On appeal from the Law Division, Cape May County, No. 09-08-0662. [Sat below: Judge Batten.] DDS No. 14-2-9700 [17 pp.]
In this appeal, the issue is whether the prosecutor’s use of a peremptory challenge to excuse the only qualified African-American person in the jury panel was sufficient to require the prosecutor to provide a nondiscriminatory explanation for the exercise of the challenge.
