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Keeton v. State

Citations

  • 749 S.W.2d 861
  • 1988 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 61
  • 1988 WL 28681

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that a defendant must do more than simply disagree with the State's explanations in order to rebut the State’s race neutral reasons
  • holding peremptory challenge of nonminority veniremember with a similar characteristic supports trial court’s finding of a race-neutral explanation
  • holding peremptory challenge of nonminority veniremember with a similar characteristic supports trial court’s finding of a race-neutral explanation
  • noting that a defendant must do more than simply disagree with the State's explanations in order to rebut the State’s race neutral reasons
  • showing of disparate examination of challenged juror weighs heavily against legitimacy of race-neutral explanation for strike
  • providing as an example of this factor “an assumption that teachers as a class are too liberal, without any specific questions having been directed to the panel or the individual juror showing the potentially liberal nature of the challenged juror”

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Judges: Miller, Teague

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