Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “[ujnless reflected by the evidence, an appellate court does not judicially ‘know 5 where jurors were seated on the venire, which jurors were peremptorily struck by the parties, jurors’ ethnicity, ages, occupations, styles of dress, religious preferences, or a myriad of other factors which may support or negate a charge that the [opponent] has used its peremptory challenges in a racially discriminatory manner. The most elaborately constructed, fact-based argument on appeal is for naught unless it is supported by evidence in the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Goode v. Shoukfeh