Court Opinion

ID: 9938450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 19:03:15.372369+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:01.527100
License: Public Domain

I concur, with the one reservation that a venireperson's having a relative who had been a murder victim would not seem to be a race-neutral reason for the State to strike that venireperson, as the main opinion seems to hold in Part II. C. A venireperson's revealing the murder of a relative might prompt the State to ask follow-up questions which might, in turn, reveal a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike, such as some emotional or spiritual reaction by the venireperson or some disappointment directed against the police or prosecutors; but, in the case before us, the State apparently did not conduct such a follow-up inquiry or base its peremptory strikes on such follow-up information.