Flowers v. State

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that issues not presented to the trial judge are procedurally barred, but when substantial rights are affected, this Court will review the issue under “plain error”
• reversing on Batson grounds where prosecutors used 100 percent of their peremptory strikes against African Americans
• One of the prosecutor’s peremptory challenges was deemed pretextual because there was no evidence in the record to support the reason for the strike.
• \Failure to voir dire as to the characteristic cited for the strike is also an indicator of pretext.\
• “Failure to voir dire as to the characteristic cited for the strike is also an indicator of pretext.”
• purported race-neutral reason “highly suspect” when strike not applied to similar juror of opposite race

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).