Legal Opinion
People v. Stephens
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 22, 1994PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant’s claim that the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to strike African-American women from the jury violated the ruling of Batson v Kentucky (476 US 79) is not preserved for our review.
In 1986, the Supreme Court ruled in Batson that a prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges to deliberately exclude African-Americans from the jury solely on the basis of their race unconstitutionally discriminated against the excluded jurors. Not until this year did that Court extend the equal protection…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TBSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- People v. IannelliNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
3Cited by21 opinions
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- Caston v. CostelloDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1999
- People v. SpenceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
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