People v. MacShane’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[Defendant] failed to meet his burden of establishing a prima facie case of discrimination under step one of the three-step protocol in [ Batson ].... He did not articulate facts and circumstances that raised an inference that the prosecutor excused these jurors for a discriminatory reason; instead, defense counsel merely identified a general motive to discriminate untethered to the particular jurors at issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rhone