Riley v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the prosecution violated Batson when it struck jurors because they were older and female
• finding that trial court “correctly concluded that age is a permissible basis upon which to exercise a peremptory strike”
• addressing Equal Protection principles, not whether scope of voir dire was proper
• “Here, however, the prosecutor’s explanation clearly references his intention to strike only women — albeit older women — from the jury panel. The fact that the Commonwealth used age to identify which women to strike does not overcome the constitutional infirmity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lebedun v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-07· cited 76×
• Akins v. Easterling
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-08-05· cited 36×
• Coleman v. Hogan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-06-06· cited 11×
• State v. Rey Alfredo Ornelas
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2014-07-24· cited 7×
• Cudjoe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-09-24· cited 6×
• People v. Douglas
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-05-03· cited 5×
• Terry Roger Skipper, etc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-12· cited 4×
• Burton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-15· cited 1×
• People v. Douglas
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-05-03
• Hart v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-02-28

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,335×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Buck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 118×
• Nicholas v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 95×
• United States v. Morgan A. Joe, Sr., United States of America v. James E. Baylor, Jr., United States of America v. Alton L. Skeeter
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-03-04· cited 84×
• Jamborsky v. Baskins
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 65×
• Barksdale v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-14· cited 25×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-16· cited 25×
• Chambliss v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-12-05· cited 5×