The Daily Journal, August 23, 2010 by Rebecca Beyer
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The fact that the court is “taking very seriously a case in which only one African American juror was struck and making sure that’s treated with the same careful scrutiny as if it were 12 is very important,” Semel said. “In Batson, the court made it very clear that a strike that is motivated in substantial part by race or some other impermissible reason is just as offensive to the Constitution as striking a series of prospective jurors.”