A claim that long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent barring racially-based challenges to prospective jurors does not apply where black defendants exercise peremptory challenges against white jurors has been rejected by the 2nd Circuit. The panel also ruled that an improper motive for a challenge by one attorney out of several in a multi-defendant case can be enough to violate the principle of Batson v. Kentucky .
June 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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A claim that long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent barring racially-based challenges to prospective jurors does not apply where black defendants exercise peremptory challenges against white jurors has been rejected by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The two-judge panel also ruled that an improper motive for a challenge by one attorney out of several in a multidefendant case can be enough to violate the principle of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986).
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