Some one hundred and six years before the United States Supreme Court\u27s 1986 decision in Batson v. Kentucky the Court ruled that a black person is denied the equal protection of the laws when the State seeks to convict him of a criminal offense in a proceeding in which members of his race have been excluded from serving on the jury. From this straightforward and common-sense beginning, the Court stumbled and lurched for more than a century before arriving at another equally straightforward and common-sense decision in Batson. The purpose of this article is to examine the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Batson in light of both the decisions that preceded it and the meaning given the Court\u27s ruling by other state and federal courts. Prim...
Almost thirty years ago, in Batson v. Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court held that prosecutor...
Put simply, there is a perception among many Georgians that the court system treats minorities worse...
This Article, Disparately Seeking Jurors: Disparate Impact and the (Mis)use of Batson, uncovers a ...
Some one hundred and six years before the United States Supreme Court\u27s 1986 decision in Batson v...
This is the published version.The United States Supreme Court has rendered numerous decisions in its...
It cannot be denied that our jury selection process has lent itself to invidious racial discriminati...
In Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that a prosecutor may not peremptorily challenge a jur...
This Article revisits the standard employed to assess the constitutionality of racial classification...
This Article addresses the evolving constitutional restraints on the exercise of peremptory challeng...
The exercise of peremptory challenges remains the least regulated area of jury selection, largely le...
Historically, peremptory challenges were thought necessary to ensure fair and impartial juries, but ...
Research shows the mere presence of Blacks on capital juries--on the rare occasions they are seated-...
The Supreme Court faced an important ideological choice when it banned the racial use of peremptory ...
In Snyder v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its commitment to rooting out racially discrimi...
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Almost thirty years ago, in Batson v. Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court held that prosecutor...
Put simply, there is a perception among many Georgians that the court system treats minorities worse...
This Article, Disparately Seeking Jurors: Disparate Impact and the (Mis)use of Batson, uncovers a ...
Some one hundred and six years before the United States Supreme Court\u27s 1986 decision in Batson v...
This is the published version.The United States Supreme Court has rendered numerous decisions in its...
It cannot be denied that our jury selection process has lent itself to invidious racial discriminati...
In Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that a prosecutor may not peremptorily challenge a jur...
This Article revisits the standard employed to assess the constitutionality of racial classification...
This Article addresses the evolving constitutional restraints on the exercise of peremptory challeng...
The exercise of peremptory challenges remains the least regulated area of jury selection, largely le...
Historically, peremptory challenges were thought necessary to ensure fair and impartial juries, but ...
Research shows the mere presence of Blacks on capital juries--on the rare occasions they are seated-...
The Supreme Court faced an important ideological choice when it banned the racial use of peremptory ...
In Snyder v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its commitment to rooting out racially discrimi...
C © American Psychology-Law Society/Division 41 of the American Psychological Association 2006 Abstr...
Almost thirty years ago, in Batson v. Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court held that prosecutor...
Put simply, there is a perception among many Georgians that the court system treats minorities worse...
This Article, Disparately Seeking Jurors: Disparate Impact and the (Mis)use of Batson, uncovers a ...