A state court did not violate the constitutional rights of two criminal defendants by denying a Batson motion based on the prosecutor’s explanation that he made an honest mistake in removing a Hispanic juror, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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Prosecutors in New Jersey are asking a court for the birth dates of all potential jurors for purposes of running criminal history checks on them.

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A trial judge ruling on an objection to a peremptory strike of a juror can consider race-neutral "demeanor-based" explanations for the strike, even though he did not personally witness the juror’s demeanor, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a ...

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