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U.S. Supreme Court justices rule on peremptory challenges

A party bringing a Batson challenge does not have to prove that it is more likely than not that the other party's unexplained peremptory challenges were based on impermissible bias, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. A black male defendant was convicted of assaulting and murdering his white girlfriend's child. During jury selection in his ...

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