794 So. 2d 161 - Ryals v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[t]he Batson doctrine is not concerned with racial, gender, or ethnic balance on petit juries, and it does not hold that a party is entitled to a jury composed of or including members of [a] cognizable group. Rather, it is concerned exclusively with discriminatory intent on the part of the lawyer against whose use of his peremptory strikes the objection is interposed.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 989 So. 2d 320 - Chamberlin v. State · 980 So. 2d 908 - Strickland v. State

2. “[t]he "totality of the relevant facts" do not give an inference of discriminatory purpose. The trial judge was shown a single factor, that the State exercised 10 of its 12 peremptory strikes against women, to support an inference of discriminatory intent. This factor, in itself, under the facts of this case, was not compelling proof of discriminatory intent, given that women composed one-half, rather than a minority, of the venire, and given that the State tendered three women. Opposed to this one factor were the factors that nothing about the voir dire, nothing about the prosecutors' conduct, nothing about the habitual policies of these prosecutors or any stated policies of the district attorney's office, and nothing about the nature of the case support an inference of discriminatory intent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 980 So. 2d 908 - Strickland v. State · 981 So. 2d 964 - Scott v. State

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

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