Court Opinion

ID: 9531097
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:07:28.388718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:20.811577
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Judge JONES
dissenting.
While I concur with part of the result reached by the majority in Part I and with its disposition of the remaining allegations of error, I dissent from the remand.
I agree with the majority that the defendant established a prima facie case for purposeful discrimination on the part of the prosecutor here. See Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986); United States v. Chalan, 812 F.2d 1302 (10th Cir.1987). The prosecutor was given the opportunity to overcome the defendant’s showing and failed to do so. There is no indication that the trial court did not consider all other attendant circumstances and, therefore, on remand, has nothing more to consider.
Thus, I conclude that the trial court erred in not acknowledging, as a matter of law, the unrebutted prima facie showing of purposeful discrimination by the prosecutor and in failing, therefore, to declare a mistrial. Accordingly, I would reverse the judgments of conviction and remand for a new trial.