Opinion ID: 1467434
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Systematic Exclusion of Hispanics

Text: Moving on to Bustamante's second argument, that Hispanics systematically were excluded from the grand and petit juries, we again note that Bustamante has failed to submit any evidence that Hispanics were systematically excluded from the jury pool. Moreover, Bustamante himself concedes that there were several Hispanics in the jury pool, as well as one Hispanic seated on the jury that convicted him. Bustamante also argues that the prosecutor sought to exclude Hispanics from the jury through her exercise of peremptory challenges. Without the transcript of the entire voir dire examination or any other evidence to back up this claim, and since apparently no challenge was ever made under the stricture of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), we are left in the dark about this assertion. [3] Accordingly, we discern no merit to this claim. See State v. Pineda, 712 A.2d 858, 861 (R.I.1998); State v. Jennings, 117 R.I. 291, 294, 366 A.2d 543, 545 (1976) (party seeking court's review must provide so much of the record as required to allow court to pass upon alleged error, otherwise court must affirm trial justice's holdings).