Curtis Brinson v. Donald Vaughn the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania

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• stating that extraordinary circumstances have been found where petitioner has timely asserted his rights mistakenly in the wrong forum
• stating that extraordinary circumstances have been found where petitioner has timely asserted his rights mistakenly in the wrong forum
• finding that state court unreasonably applied Batson to reject claim of discriminatory strikes where “the trial judge did not follow the three-step process outlined in Batson,” including by “not call[ing] upon the prosecutor to state his reasons for the contested strikes”
• remanding for an evidentiary hearing and de novo review where the state court’s failure to proceed to step two was contrary to Batson
• state court clearly wrong in holding the fact the victim, perpetrator, and witness were all African-American precluded a finding of prima facie racial discrimination
• equitable tolling justified where a “court has misled a party regarding the steps that the party needs to take to preserve a claim”

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