Opinion ID: 1487682
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Heading: Statistical Disparity

Text: Here, as in Miller-El, the statistics are remarkable. Miller-El II, 545 U.S. at 240, 125 S.Ct. 2317 (noting that prosecutors used peremptory strikes to exclude 91% of eligible black venire members). Jurors were chosen from the first twenty-eight members of the venire. At the conclusion of the parties' questioning, four panelists were struck for cause or by agreement, and the parties then submitted their peremptory challenges. Fisk struck five of the six African Americans (83%) but only one (5.5%) of the eligible nonblack prospective jurors, [5] and [h]appenstance is unlikely to produce this disparity. [6] Miller-El I, 537 U.S. at 342, 123 S.Ct. 1029. B