What is the reason why a prosecutor objected to a jury member who was struck by a car while driving in a residential area of the crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Jones, No. CR 53009, No. S056364 (Cal. 2011):
the neighborhood of the crime, both served on the trial jury without objection by the prosecutor, and both were White. (Cf. Miller-El v. Dretke, supra, 545 U.S. 231, 248 [that prosecutor's "reason also applied to... other panel members, most of them white, none of them struck, is evidence of pretext"].)
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