Griffith v. Kentucky, No. 85-5221 (U.S. Supreme Court) (479 U.S. 314; 107 S.Ct. 708) (January 13, 1987) (Justice Blackmun)
In Batson v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 79 (1986), the Supreme Court ruled ruled that a defendant in a state criminal trial could establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination violative of the Fourteenth Amendment, based on the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges to strike members of the defendant's race ...
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