Ratliff v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “WHEN A LITIGANT OBJECTS THAT AN OPPOSING PARTY SEEKS TO EXERCISE A PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE FOR CONSTITUTIONALLY IMPERMISSIBLE REASONS, WHO HAS THE BURDEN TO PROVE (OR DISPROVE) FACTS ON WHICH THE OBJECTOR RELIES?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 679 So. 2d 1183 - Ratliff v. State

2. “[W]e hold that from this time forward a Neil inquiry is required when an objection is raised that a peremptory challenge is being used in a racially discriminatory manner.”

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

3. “[W]hen the trial court relies on an uncontested factual predicate, an appeals court cannot make a de novo determination that the predicate is factually inaccurate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 745 So. 2d 1066 - Heggan v. State