[Download] "People State New York v. Vinson Laron Levon" by Supreme Court of New York * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Vinson Laron Levon
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 22, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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Ordered that the case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, to hear and report on the prosecutor's exercise of peremptory
challenges, and the appeal is held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court is to file its report with all convenient
speed. Once the defendant had established a prima facie case of purposeful discrimination in jury selection by the prosecutor, it
became incumbent upon the prosecutor to come forth with a racially neutral explanation for the use of his peremptory challenges
(see, Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79). That the jury, as finally constituted, included five black jurors is immaterial. As
the Court of Appeals recently stated in People v Jenkins (75 N.Y.2d 550, 559), "[for] the purposes of equal protection, the
constitutional violation is the exclusion of any blacks solely because of their race".