Batson v. Kentucky

'Cause she had said that on her questionnaire.

We raise what's called a Batson challenge.

Batson is a Supreme Court case-

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... that says that you cannot-

Okay, you have your panel, your possible panel, and so you have like 20 white people and, like, five Black people.

Well, what the DAs were doing is just striking every Black person, so you'd get all these all-white juries.

So now, if, if we raise a Batson challenge, which is essentially saying, "There's no reason to strike this person other than the fact that they're Black," the DA has to provide their race neutral reason.

black woman.

There's a case called Batson v. Kentucky from 1986.

And it was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor's use of a preemptory challenge in a criminal case, that's when they dismiss jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so.

The court said that they may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.