David Green v. Brion D. Travis, Chairman, New York State Division of Parole, Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York

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• holding that the prosecution's attempt to use all of its for-cause and peremptory challenges to strike black and Hispanic jurors established a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson
• holding that the petitioner's claim was not foreclosed because the state appellate court merged the claim preservation issue with the test for a prima facie Batson claim
• holding that habeas relief is foreclosed as procedurally defaulted when a state court rules that a claim is “not preserved for appellate review,” but then rules “in any event” on the merits
• confirming that a potential juror’s “negative feelings about the police” is a race-neutral explanation for a peremptory strike
• considering the prosecutor's very specific list of juror criteria she used in narcotics cases, coupled with her reliance on her contemporaneous notes from voir dire
• upholding peremptory strikes as race-neutral when based on the prosecutor’s explanation that the prospective jurors had relatives who had been convicted of drug offenses

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