Commonwealth v. Carleton

How courts have described this case

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• finding discrimination on basis of \ethnicity\ when considering prosecutor's peremptory challenges of jurors with \Irish-sounding surnames\
• finding discrimination on basis of “ethnicity” when considering prosecutor’s peremptory challenges of jurors with “Irish-sounding surnames”
• finding discrimination on basis of ethnicity when considering prosecutor’s peremptory challenges of jurors with “Irish-sounding surnames”
• suggesting that religion is suspect classification
• challenges based on visual assessment of jurors, level of education, and widower status insufficient because vague, general, and not specifically tied to issues in case
• it is permissible to draw inference of ethnicity from juror’s surname

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).