recognizing that A Batson @ claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity.
How later courts described this case
- recognizing that A Batson @ claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity.
- finding medical evidence, appellant’s assertion that he was the only person with the child at the time of injuries and appellant’s inconsistent statements about the origin of injuries sufficient to support conviction
- stating the prosecutor's strategy of selecting jurors not prone to have a prejudice against either the police officers or the State was race-neutral
- recognizing that Batson claim may be brought to challenge discriminatory exclusion of jurors on the basis of gender or ethnicity
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
JOHNSON, J.,
filed a dissenting opinion.