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Rico v. Leftridge-Byrd, No. Civ. No. 00-4841 (E.D.Pa.) (2001 WL 1428351) (November 8, 2001) (Judge William H. Jr. Yohn)

In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 86 (1986) the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment governs the exercise of peremptory challenges by a prosecutor in a criminal trial and that the "[p]urposeful racial discrimination in selection of the venire violates a defendant's right ...

 

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