In the Matter of the Marriage of Joey Miller and Catherine Boldery v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when the district court commits a Batson error “the defendant is not required to show that the putative error affected his substantial rights”
• recognizing Batson violation not subject to harmless error review and characterizing harm as structural error
• recognizing Batson violation not subject to harmless error review and characterizing harm as structural error
• remanding for “explicit on-the-record findings” after trial court rejected Batson challenge without giving any indication that it engaged in the required three-step analysis
• “Had it been apparent that the district court actually engaged in the third step, then its determination would be afforded great deference by this court” but because 24 the trial court “improperly truncated the Batson analysis,” deference was inappropriate.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).