Is there purposeful discrimination in the context of a peremptory challenge to remove the only African-American prospective juror from a jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Wadkins, C077408 (Cal. App. 2015):
69] and People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 by finding no purposeful discrimination based on the prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge to remove the only African-American prospective juror in the first 18 jurors. Disagreeing, we affirm.
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