797 So. 2d 573 - Jeffries v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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70 state decisions

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1. “(1) the objecting party must make a timely objection, must show that the venire person is a member of a distinct racial group, and must request that the court ask the striking party the reasons for the strike; (2) if the first step is met, the court must ask the proponent of the strike to explain the reason for the strike; and (3) if the reason given is facially race-neutral and the court believes that given all the circumstances surrounding the strike, the explanation is not pretext, the strike will be sustained. In the third step, the court's focus is on the genuineness of the explanation, not its reasonableness.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 806 So. 2d 559 - Dorsey v. State · 920 So. 2d 698 - Scott v. State

2. “means of normal investigative measures that inevitably would have been set in motion as a matter of routine police procedure.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 834 So. 2d 314 - Hatcher v. State · 981 So. 2d 585 - McDonnell v. State

3. “A motion for judgment of acquittal should only be granted if there is no view of the evidence from which a jury could make a finding contrary to that of the moving party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perry v. State