Commonwealth v. Fruchtman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• permitting judge to overrule constitutionally impermissible challenge rather than strike venire and recommence jury selection
• upholding judge’s conclusion that defendant did not have legitimate gender-neutral reasons for peremptory challenges and judge’s rejection of defendant’s challenges to women based on their employment
• upholding denial of peremptory challenges on basis of judge’s “conclu[sion] that the defendant did not have legitimate gender-neutral reasons” for his challenges to some, but not all, of the women he challenged
• “The determination whether the defendant’s explanation for each challenge was sufficient to establish a nondiscriminatory basis [is] within the judge’s discretion”
• allowed challenge to a woman whose husband was a police officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).