California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jones, B263800 (Cal. App. 2017):
"A prima facie case of racial discrimination in the use of peremptory challenges is established if the totality of the relevant facts gives '"rise to an inference of discriminatory purpose."' [Citation.]" (People v. Thomas (2014) 53 Cal.4th 771, 793-794.) Among the "types of evidence [that] may prove particularly relevant" in evaluating whether a prima facie case of discrimination exists "are that a party has struck most or all of the members of the identified group from the venire, that a party has used a disproportionate number of strikes against the group, that the party has failed to engage these jurors in more than
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