Joaquin Leso Fernandez v. Ernie Roe, Warden General of the State of California People of the State of California

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• holding that prior strike of an Hispanic prospective juror supported an inference of general discriminatory intent germane to strike of two African Americans
• holding that prior strike of an Hispanic prospective juror supported an inference of general discriminatory intent germane to strike of two African Americans
• concluding that the prosecutor 26 disproportionately struck Hispanics from the jury box even though one Hispanic juror ultimately sat on the jury
• holding that prior strike of an Hispanic prospective juror sup- ported an inference of general discriminatory intent germane to strike of two African Americans
• noting that “the prosecutor failed to engage in meaningful questioning of any of the minority jurors[ ]”
• finding a prima facie showing where “[t]he prosecutor [had] struck four out of seven ... Hispanics” and “the only two prospective African-American jurors”

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