Tursio v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• striking nine non-blacks and one black, to create an all-black jury, held to make out a very strong prima facie case
• striking nine non-blacks and one black, to create an allblack jury, held to make out a very strong prima facie case
• \we conclude that a Batson motion will be timely when made at any time before the jury is sworn.\
• “unless the trial court rigorously scrutinizes the prosecutor’s race-neutral explanations, Batson’s promise of eliminating racial discrimination in jury selection will be an empty one”
• “the prosecutor used ninety percent of his peremptory challenges to strike a group — whites—that constituted only twenty-six percent of the venire”

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