United States v. Julio Cesar Vasquez-Lopez

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• concluding that because a trial court judge observes voir dire first hand, we give \broad deference\ to the judge's finding that the defendant did not establish a prima facie case of a Batson violation
• considering that the “gov- ernment’s other peremptory challenges did not suggest a gen- eral pattern of discrimination against racial minorities” in the Batson analysis
• The prosecutor’s “willingness to make up nonracial reasons ... make[s] it even harder to believe his reasons for striking [the minority juror in question] were race-neutral.”
• \[T]he Constitution forbids striking even a single prospective juror for a discriminatory purpose\
• “[T]he Constitution forbids striking even a single prospective juror for a discriminatory purpose”
• The prosecutor's \willingness to make up nonracial reasons . . . make[s] it even harder to believe his reasons for striking [the minority juror in question] were race-neutral.\

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