McGahee v. Alabama Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “record … compels a finding that the State’s use of a peremptory strike in this case … constituted intentional discrimination”
• holding that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals unreasonably applied federal law that was clearly established in Batson when it failed to consider all relevant circumstances at Batson’s third step
• holding that “the fact that 100% of the African-American potential jurors were ... removed by the prosecution through the challenges for cause and peremptory challenges” is relevant to a Batson determination
• noting that “[a]t the time McGahee was tried, Dallas County, Alabama was fifty-five percent African-American” but his jury was all white
• noting that the prosecution's strike of multiple jurors for \low intelligence\ \was unsupported by any evidence in the record\
• observing that in the context of AEDPA review, the court should “look through” a summary decision to the “last reasoned decision” on the issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).