Court Opinion

ID: 9762996
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:35:07.856917+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:55:29.510552
License: Public Domain

KERN, Senior Judge,
concurring:
While I agree with the affirmance of appellant’s convictions and much of the reasoning in the majority opinion, I am not persuaded that the so-called Batson issue was a close one or that the trial court’s Batson inquiry was not entirely satisfactory. I am persuaded that the trial court’s analysis of the circumstances concerning the prosecutor’s use of preemptory challenges here was quite adequate and that its decision that no prima facie case of discrimination was shown was quite correct. As the majority points out, appellant by “focusing primarily on numbers ... failed to meet his prima facie burden.”