Floyd v. State

I cannot agree with the analysis in the majority’s opinion concluding that, because the trial court was necessarily aware of the Houston Circuit' Court’s history of successful Batson7 challenges and was thus eogni-*971zant of the potential for disparate treatment of certain discrete groups, of venire members, and because of the heightened scrutiny this Court would give to this issue on return to remand, there was no basis for a finding that the trial court improperly .determined that the State., ,protperly struck Juror No. 58. That,, to me, is .not a valid reason for such a finding.

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