2007 Pa. Super. 31 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Lark · Commonwealth v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Pursell · 2001 Pa. Super. 54 - Commonwealth v. Carr
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“[T]he Sagel lecture and the Lentz notes were first referenced and quoted in a 1997 article in Philadelphia Magazine about then-mayoral candidate Jack McMahon. The article discussed, inter alia, a 1987 training video by McMahon, which purportedly “depicted McMahon instructing new district attorneys how to use peremptory challenges to discriminate in jury selection in criminal trials.” The Commonwealth contends that there was no reason that Appellant could not have raised his after-discovered evidence claim prior to learning Lentz’s identity or obtaining a copy of the notes, and that, in any event, such evidence does not entitle Appellant to relief. We agree. Indeed, in Commonwealth v. Lark, 560 Pa. 487 , 746 A.2d 585 (2000), our Supreme Court rejected the appellant’s assertion that the evidence of the McMahon tape discussed above, which was made after the appellant’s trial in 1985, established a prima facie case of discrimination entitling him to a new trial or evidentiary hearing. The Court explained: We reject Appellant’s suggestion that Attorney McMahon’s statements during a training session in 1986 or 1987 governed the conduct of a different prosecutor in 1985 merely because both attorneys worked in the same office. We have also previously determined that the tape is not sufficient to establish a policy of discrimination in jury selection by the prosecutors in the District Attorney’s Office of Philadelphia County. See Commonwealth v. Rollins, 558 Pa. 532, 738 A.2d 435 , 44”
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