560 So. 2d 203 - Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 66 state decisions

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1. “achieve the delicate balance between eliminating racial prejudice and the right to exercise peremptory challenges.”

   17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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2. “THE COURT: All right. The state, of course, has submitted to a voluntary Neil inquiry, in essence, in this regard without the Court making an initial determination that it was necessary. The two observations— and I don't have the statistics in front of me, but—and I'm not basing this decision on statistics, but I think we're all aware that somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 percent of the population of the registration in Duval County is black. I'm not sure those are accurate, but I think it's in that neighborhood. The composition of this jury right now, the present composition of the 12 jurors, there's two, which makes 16 and two-thirds of the jury is black of the 12. There's no blacks as far as alternates are concerned. Might I assume the victim in the case is white? MR. BATEH: That's correct, Your Honor. MR. NICHOLS: Yes, sir. THE COURT: The defendant is white. I don't question his standing to raise the question. There is a standing to raise the question, but taking the representations of Mr. Bateh, I find that the challenges exercised against the blacks are not based purely upon race or racial discrimination and, consequently, I will deny any motion for a mistrial or more properly, probably, a motion to strike the entire panel, but, at any rate, I deny the motion on that basis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 875 So. 2d 415 - Reed v. State

3. “(a) Witnesses said they had seen Reed wearing his baseball cap on the day of the murder before the probable time of death but not thereafter. They positively identified the cap as Reed's because of the presence of certain stains and mildew. (b) Reed's fingerprints were found on checks that had been taken from the Oermann home and had been found in the yard. (c) An expert witness gave testimony that hairs found on the body and in the baseball cap were consistent with Reed's hair. (d) Another expert witness gave testimony that the semen found in the body could have been Reed's. (e) Reed's cellmate, Nigel Hackshaw, gave testimony that Reed had admitted breaking into the Oermann house and killing Mrs. Oermann.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 875 So. 2d 415 - Reed v. State