2005 Pa. Super. 184 - Commonwealth v. Basemore’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Since the Batson decision, hundreds of state and federal courts have applied Bat-son , and, when Batson violations have occurred after jeopardy has attached, those courts have remanded cases for further evidentiary proceedings, reversed convictions, and remanded for new trials. No state or federal court has ever held that a prosecutor’s Batson violation, no matter the circumstances, constitutes prosecutorial misconduct of such a degree as to implicate double jeopardy principles.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Daniels