How have the courts treated peremptory challenges to exclude African-American prospective jurors?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Montes, S059912 (Cal. 2014):
Before addressing the individual prospective jurors at issue, we observe that at the time the jury was empanelled, three African-Americans were seated on the jury. The presence of these jurors on the panel is one indication of the prosecutor's good faith in exercising his peremptory challenges to exclude the African-American prospective jurors in question. (People v. Lewis, supra, 43 Cal.4th p. 480.)
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