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Posted By: Bob

Prosecutors can nimbly get around dismissing Black jurors without setting up reversible error in the jury selection process (voir dire). All they have to do is establish some other basis for the exclusion of the juror, however feeble. Batson challenges are routinely thrown out if the appeals court can find any possible reason for the exclusion of minority jurors and believe me any prosecutor worth his salt has poured over the decisions and knows exactly how to do it...