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Ford v. State

Citations

  • 423 S.E.2d 245
  • 262 Ga. 558
  • 92 Fulton County D. Rep. 2875
  • 1992 Ga. LEXIS 990

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  • where the State used nine of ten peremptory strikes on black prospective jurors, there was a strong prima facie case of racial discrimination, and the State was required to carry a heavy burden to overcome it
  • “The prosecutor . . . exercised 90 percent of his strikes to strike 90 percent of the blacks from the venire, while exercising 10 percent of his strikes to exclude a mere 3 percent of the whites on the venire.”

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Judges: Fletcher, Bell, Hunt

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