People v. Turner

Opinion

ARABIAN, J.

—This case reaches us again after a retrial following this court’s reversal of defendant’s conviction and death sentence. In reversing, we concluded that the prosecution failed to sustain its burden of showing that the challenged prospective jurors were not excluded because of group bias, and the trial court failed to discharge its duty to inquire into and carefully evaluate the prosecutor’s proffered explanations, in violation of People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 [148 Cal.Rptr. 890, 583 P.2d 748]. (People v. Turner (1986) 42 Cal.3d 711, 728 [230 Cal.Rptr. 656, 726 P.2d…