HITCHMAN EX REL. BROWN v. Nagy

How courts have described this case

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• “Requiring the trial court to identify a prima facie case of discrimination before initiating a [Batson] inquiry will avoid a chilling effect on counsel’s further exercise of peremptory challenges.”
• “Requiring the trial court to identify a prima facie case of discrimination before initiating a [Batson ] inquiry will avoid a chilling effect on counsel’s further exercise of peremptory challenges.”
• “We have no doubt that a trial judge has the authority to raise the issue of racial bias in the exercise of peremptory challenges sua sponte.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).