Paulino v. Harrison

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even if prosecutor fails to come forward with step-two reason, trial court must complete step three
• concluding that the state’s mere speculation about its race-neutral reasons without any recollection or record from the prosecutor failed Batson’s second step
• stating that at step two of a Batson analysis, the prosecutor’s speculation was not circumstantial evidence of her actual reasons for striking African-Americans
• stating that “purposeful discrimination” raises a question of fact
• ordering evidentiary hearing where record does not disclose prosecutor's reasons for peremptory strike
• “Evidence of a prosecutor’s actual reasons may be direct or eircum stantial, but mere speculation is insufficient.”

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