People v. Douglas

*307*1164This case is about fairness and equality in our criminal justice system. When a party exercises a peremptory challenge against a prospective *1165juror for an invidious reason, the fact that the party may also have had one or more legitimate reasons for challenging that juror does not eliminate the taint to the process. We reject the application in these circumstances of the so-called "mixed motive" or "dual motive" analysis, which arose in employment discrimination cases as a way for defendant-employers to show that they would have taken an adverse action against a plaintiff-employee whether…