Jury Selection (Voir Dire & Batson)

Rulings about how juries are picked, including peremptory strikes and Batson challenges to strikes based on race. Summaries from Criminal Defense Resources™ are general education for pro per/pro se defendants and families, not legal advice.

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• Batson v. Kentucky

  U.S. Supreme Court · April 30, 1986 · 476 U.S. 79 (1986)

  The Court held that the Equal Protection Clause bars a prosecutor from using peremptory strikes to remove potential jurors because of their race. A defendant can make a prima facie case from the facts of the defendant's own trial. Then the prosecutor must give a race-neutral explanation for the strikes.

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