Keith Jamerson v. Gail Lewis

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• finding that the prosecutor’s “failure to exercise peremptory strikes against other non-black jurors who shared weak parallels with [the struck] juror . . . ultimately does little to undermine the stated justification”
• rejecting as too broad a Batson comparison based on the fact that accepted ju- rors also had relatives or knew people associated with a crime
• rejecting as too broad a Batson comparison based on the fact that accepted ju- rors also had relatives or knew people associated with a crime
• rejecting as too broad a Batson comparison based on the fact that accepted ju- rors also had relatives or knew people associated with a crime
• two jurors not similarly situated where prosecutor was aware of the conviction of the siblings of one of the jurors, but not the other
• in considering Batson claim, Pinholster 28 does not bar court from considering reconstructed evidence of jury venire that was actually presented to the state court

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