State v. Dana Gallop’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Because the trial justice below similarly ruled on the ultimate question of intentional discrimination, we need not determine whether the exclusion from the jury of the only black person in the jury panel establishes a prima facie showing that the prosecutor exercised the state's peremptory challenge on the basis of race. We instead need only determine whether the trial justice erred in accepting the prosecutor's race-neutral reason for excluding the prospective juror.”

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

2. “[t]his step of the analysis will become moot if the trial justice moves beyond it to consider the second and third steps.”

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