a substantial violation of defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial warranted reversal of defendant’s conviction and sentence
How later courts described this case
- a substantial violation of defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial warranted reversal of defendant’s conviction and sentence
- noting that the majority of courts have delegated the Batson remedy to the discretion of the trial -5- court
- “Unless a discriminatory intent is inherent in the striking party’s explanation, the reason |14offered will be deemed race-neutral.”
- noting that the majority of courts have delegated the Batson remedy to the discretion of the trial court
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
VICTORY, J.,
concurs in the result.*
_JjI concur in the result reached by the majority. However, I point out that given the majority’s determination that the trial court’s ruling on the reverse Batson challenges was error, the entire discussion about the validity of the trial court’s remedy for the Batson violations is dicta.