Opinion ID: 2446955
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Heading: Batson and gender

Text: Cleveland made an objection, based on the principle set forth in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), forbidding the state's exercise of race-based peremptory challenges, to the alleged gender-biased nature of the prosecution's strikes in the present case. Nine of the State's ten peremptory challenges were used to remove women from the jury pool. Of particular significance in the present case is the appellant's own gender. That inescapable fact affords him no standing to assert a claim that he suffered prejudice as a result of the State's peremptory challenges. Moreover, the jury that was ultimately impaneled consisted of five females and seven males.