Joe McCain v. Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center

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• although African-American jurors were struck at a “much higher proportion” than their representation in the total venire, in absolute terms only two of five peremptories actually exercised were against African-Americans
• “[Wjhere there are only a few members of a racial group on the venire panel and one party strikes each one of them,” the inference of discrimination may arise
• “[I]t is illogical to infer in every case a discriminatory intent from noting that the percentage of challenges used by one party against members of a racial group is either more or less than the percentage of that group’s total percentage of the venire panel.”
• “[A] ‘pattern’ does not necessarily correlate to the racial proportions of the venire panel.... A ‘pattern’ is more likely demonstrated by the manner in which a party uses its strikes as compared to its total strikes or to the total number of members of the racial group.”
• \[A] `pattern' does not necessarily correlate to the racial proportions of the venire panel. . . . A `pattern' is more likely demonstrated by the manner in which a party uses its strikes as compared to its total strikes or to the total number of members of the racial group.\
• “[I]t is illogical to infer in every case a discriminatory intent from noting that the percentage of challenges used by one party No. 03-2964 33 against members of a racial group is either more or less than the percentage of that group’s total percentage of the venire panel.”

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