Hyde v. Thornton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that specificity and case-relatedness are not required to be considered at step two, but may be considered as part of a step-three analysis
• “At step two, the proponent of the strike need only articulate a facially race-neutral reason for the strike.”
• given strong evidence of guilt, defendant failed to establish he was prejudiced by counsel’s alleged errors related to bad character evidence
• prosecutor’s explanation that potential juror was disinterested may not have been compelling, but the trial court’s ultimate finding is entitled to great deference on appeal, and appellant did not demonstrate that it was clearly erroneous
• no prejudice from failure to object to bad character evidence, where such evidence was “buried in four long interview videotapes that were played during the testimony of three different witnesses” and where “the evidence of Appellant’s guilt was strong”
• “[T]o carry the burden of production at step two, the proponent of the strike need not offer 9 an explanation that is concrete, tangible, or specific. The explanation need not even be case-related. The explanation for the strike only needs to be facially race-neutral”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).