ESTABLISHING A PRIMA FACIE CASE OF DISCRIMINATION IN JURY SELECTION
Apr 1, 2010
In
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the United States Supreme Court held that a prosecutor
cannot strike a prospective African-American juror from an African-American
defendant's jury for reasons based solely on race. This article describes
the three-step
Batson
challenge.