629 So. 2d 670 - Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “"If all the facts in the present case are carefully considered (i.e., that Bui, who is Vietnamese, was tried for these murders before the United States Supreme Court's decision in Powers ; that there was almost a five-year delay in requiring the prosecutors in this case to come forth with the reasons for striking blacks from the venire; that race-neutral reasons were given for striking eight of the nine black persons removed from the venire by the state; that this case does not involve a black defendant or a black victim; that one black person served on the jury (the prosecutors had the opportunity to strike this black person also, but did not); that the defense struck one black person from the venire; and that one of the most distinguished black circuit judges in this state was not convinced that the state's strikes were racially motivated), we cannot hold that the trial court's finding of an absence of racial discrimination with respect to the state's 11th strike was clearly erroneous. See Ex parte Branch. "”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 651 So. 2d 576 - Freeman v. State

2. “The trial judge's determination in each case that peremptory challenges were not racially motivated is, ordinarily, entitled to considerable deference.”

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