Court Opinion

ID: 9790881
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:00:50.020364+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:32.350892
License: Public Domain

JOHNSON, Judge,
concurring in result:
I concur in the opinion of the Court but do need to point out that this question has been addressed by this Court before. See in this regard Nguyen v. State, 769 P.2d 167, 170, wherein this Court said as follows:
We find the appellant’s reliance on Bat-son to be misplaced for two reasons. Initially, the Supreme Court stated that to establish a case of purposeful discrimination, a defendant first must show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group, and that the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges to remove from the venire members of the defendant’s race. (Emphasis added). Batson, 106 S.Ct. at 1703. The Supreme Court did not say that purposeful discrimination is to be presumed from the removal of veniremen of some racial group other than that of the defendant. Since the appellant was Vietnamese, not Black, we find Batson to be inapplicable.
*973For the above reasons, I, therefore, concur in the result.