519 So. 2d 886 - Dedeaux v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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1. “[o]nce the defendant makes a prima facie showing, the burden shifts to the State to come forward with a neutral explanation for challenging black jurors. Though this requirement imposes a limitation in some cases on the full peremptory character of the historic challenge, we emphasize that the prosecutor's explanation need not rise to the level justifying exercise of a challenge for cause. [Citations omitted]... . The prosecutor therefore must articulate a neutral explanation related to the particular case to be tried. The trial court then will have the duty to determine if the defendant has established purposeful discrimination.”

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

2. “(1) that he is a member of a cognizable racial group; (2) that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant's race; (3) that these facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used that practice to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of their race.”

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

3. “generally speaking, all voluntary statements or confessions of the defendant are admissible when offered by the State for what weight they may have in the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 853 So. 2d 814 - Bryant v. State