340 F. Supp. 2d 245 - Reyes v. Greiner’s Empirical Analysis
2004
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
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“The overwhelming majority of non-frivolous Batson claims dealt with by habeas courts involve sloppiness on the trial judge’s part, rather than "system-tainting” racial discrimination. Where a petitioner alleges only that the trial judge tripped up in some way in navigating the procedural steps necessary to resolve petitioner's Batson motion, as distinct from a claim that the trial judge permitted the prosecutor to exclude a prospective juror on the basis of race, and the error is one of the innocent mistakes that will inevitably be made in any system that processes large numbers of cases in good faith, there is no good reason why a federal habeas court should apply an automatic reversal rule, or further prolong the proceeding by remanding for a reconstruction hearing that is subject to the usual risks of imprecision and distortion from the passage of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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