Batson v. Kentucky
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batson-v-kentucky-164-3977251
title:
Batson v. Kentucky
text:
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race. The Court ruled that this practice violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case gave rise to the term Batson challenge, an objection to a peremptory challenge based o
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1986 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky
date created:
2004-09-17T16:14:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:19:36Z
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