How have courts treated peremptory challenges in civil cases?

"A prosecutor is presumed to employ peremptory challenges in a constitutional manner, and we defer to the trial court's ability to assess the prosecutor's rationale for excusal in order to distinguish `bona fide reasons from sham excuses.'" (People v. Salcido (2008) 44 Cal.4th 93, 136-137.) "We also defer to the trial court's conclusions in ruling on the motion, so long as the court makes `a sincere and reasoned effort to evaluate the nondiscriminatory justifications offered.'" (Id. at p. 137.)

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