Court Opinion

ID: 9857060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:13:30.730812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:56.629826
License: Public Domain

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result the majority reaches because I believe the law does require a prima facie showing of discrimination before the trial judge can require counsel to explain the reason for exercising a peremptory challenge. Because, as I said in my concurring opinion in State v. Jordan, 171 Ariz. 62, 67, 828 P.2d 786, 791 (1992), this need for a prima facie showing sets too high a hurdle to the eradication of discrimination, were I free to do so I would decline jurisdiction in this case and allow trial judges to proceed as did the judge here.