Estate of Smeenk

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court is not required to accept a race neutral explanation that is not supported by the record
• recognizing that a new trial may be appropriate in lieu of a reconstruction hearing depending on “the passage of time” (citation omitted)
• holding that evidence was not material because its exculpatory nature was too speculative
• finding that this comparison “is relevant to determining whether the prosecution’s asserted justification for striking the black juror is pretextual”
• reiterating that a prosecutor’s failure to recall his reason for exercising a peremptory strike does not constitute a race-neutral explanation
• stating that, although Batson-related credibility findings receive great deference, “this does not signify that [appellate] review is a nullity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).