Bishop v. State

ON RETURN TO REMAND

On January 13, 1995, this court remanded this case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the appellant, Christopher Bishop, made a prima facie showing of racial discrimination in the exercise of its peremptory strikes. We held that the trial court had incorrectly found that the appellant had to show a history of discriminatory striking of juries by the district attorney in order to make a prima facie showing of discrimination. We also cautioned the trial court that it could not rely solely on the fact that a greater percentage of blacks sat on…