State of Arizona v. Rodney Eugene Hardy

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that use of peremptory challenges to exclude all minority jurors results in an inference of racial discrimination
• stating that “the trial court evaluates the striking party’s credibility, considering the demeanor of the striking attorney and the excluded juror to determine whether the race-neutral rationale is a pretext for discrimination”
• finding that “[n]o Simmons instruction was required” because “the possibility of a life sentence with release after twenty-five years” was “accurately stated” in the jury instruction
• “Because Arizona’s felony murder statute applies when the predicate offense of burglary is undertaken with the intent to murder the victim, it follows that the statute likewise applies if the predicate offense is kidnapping based on intent to aid in committing a murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).