Does a court have to give deference to a prosecutor's argument that the prosecutor's credibility was compromised by the trial court?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Dixon, B277759 (Cal. App. 2019):

Thus, because the trial court did not conduct a "sincere and reasoned effort" to assess the prosecutor's credibility, the court's blanket acceptance of the prosecutor's justification is not entitled to deference. (See People v. Hardy, supra, 5 Cal.5th at p. 76 [we give deference to the trial court's ruling '"only when the trial court has made a sincere and reasoned attempt to evaluate each stated reason as applied to each challenged juror'"]; People v. Gutierrez, supra, 2 Cal.5th at p. 1159 ["[a] trial court's

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