People v. Wells

I agree with the Court’s conclusion that the order appealed from should be affirmed. After the prosecution set out its reasons for the peremptory strike of a female African-American prospective juror, defendant did not say anything further about her or make an attempt to seek clarification of the prosecution’s ambiguous explanation comparing her to a former state Supreme Court justice. Thus, defendant did not make the specific and timely objections necessary *61to: (1) apprise the court of the ambiguities inherent in this explanation and of his opposing arguments; and (2) give the court the…