Legal Opinion
People v. Hecker
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 30, 2010PublishedCited by 182 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ClPARICK, J.
In Batson v Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court formulated a three-step test to assess whether peremptory challenges have been used by a party to exclude potential jurors on the basis of race (see 476 US 79, 94-98 [1986]). These four appeals, once again, center on the application of this now-familiar three-step Batson protocol. At step one, “the moving party bears the burden of establishing a prima facie case of discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges” (People v Smocum, 99 NY2d 418, 420 [2003]). Once a prima facie case of discrimination…
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- Purkett v. ElemSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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