State v. Kempker

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Batson permits prosecutors to “play hunches” if the factors relied on are race-neutral
• when making peremptory challenges, “[p]rosecutors may still use horse sense and play hunches, so long as the factors they rely on are racially neutral”
• “[P]lain error will seldom be found in unobjected closing argument.”
• failure to object fatal to defendant’s claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).