Taitano v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the case itself presented no racial issues” because “[b]oth the defendant and the victim were black, as were the eyewitnesses who testified at trial”
• finding that a “clear and specific non-racial reason[] for striking” a juror was that “they lived near the defendant or near the scene of the crime”
• juror lived near the scene of the crime or in area of \high crime generally\
• specifically holding that prosecution's exercise of peremptory challenges because, among other reasons, prospective jurors lived in \high crime\ areas was race-neutral
• lived near the defendant, lived in a \high crime\ area, age, dress, demeanor
• lived near the defendant, lived in a \high crime\ area, age, dress, demeanor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).