Supreme Court of Louisiana· 3/13/2012

State v. Nelson

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85 So. 3d 21
2012 WL 798767

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noting that the majority of courts have delegated the Batson remedy to the discretion of the trial court
noting that the majority of courts have delegated the Batson remedy to the discretion of the trial -5- court
a substantial violation of defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial warranted reversal of defendant’s conviction and sentence
to satisfy the second step of Batson, “this explanation does not have to be persuasive, or even plausible, but must be more than a mere affirmation of good faith or assumption that the challenged juror would be “partial to the defendant because of their shared race”

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Judges: Johnson, Victory, Hoc, Guidry, Sexton

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