Commonwealth v. Sargent, S.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating a trial judge “need not engage in ‘a talismanic recitation of specific words in order to satisfy Batson’ ” (citation omitted)
• finding nothing inappropriate about striking a social service professional who might have sympathy for the defendant
• finding jurorʹs potential sympathy for defendant to be a sufficient basis
• upholding trial judge’s denial of a Batson challenge based on credibility
• “[T]he trial judge must simply make clear whether he credits the non-moving party’s race-neutral explanation for striking the relevant panelist.”
• “A prosecutor may reasonably have qualms about a panelist who fails 9 to pay attention during voir dire.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).