Jury Peremp/Wheeler

Name: Box v. Superior Court
Case #: D080573
Opinion Date: 12/30/2022
  • Categories: Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Post-Trial Motions, Postconviction Discovery, Trial Proceedings

Summary

A defendant is entitled to discover the prosecution’s jury selection notes under Penal Code section 1054.9 where a postconviction prima facie case of racial bias under Batson/Wheeler has been established. Following an automatic appeal from a 1990 first degree murder…

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Name: People v. Bryant
Case #: A152029
Opinion Date: 09/27/2019
  • Categories: Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Trial Proceedings

Summary

Trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Batson/Wheeler motions where prosecutor provided nondiscriminatory reasons to exercise peremptory strikes to remove four African-American prospective jurors. Bryant and Jackson were charged with first degree murder and other offenses. During jury…

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Name: Flowers v. Mississippi
Case #: 17-9572
Opinion Date: 06/21/2019
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Due Process, Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Trial Proceedings, Voir Dire

Summary

Based on the extraordinary facts and circumstances of this case, the trial court committed clear error by concluding the State's peremptory challenge of a black juror in defendant's Sixth trial was not motivated in substantial part by discriminatory intent. Flowers…

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Name: People v. Jones
Case #: B263800
Opinion Date: 01/19/2017
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Confessions, Due Process, Equal Protection, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Trial Proceedings

Summary

Defendant was unable to establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination in jury selection even though prosecutor struck three African-American prospective jurors. Jones, a 17-year-old African-American, was tried as an adult for murder and attempted murder. During jury selection,…

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Name: McDaniels v. Kirkland
Case #: 09-17339
Opinion Date: 12/24/2015
  • Categories: Appeals, Extraordinary Remedies, Habeas Corpus (Federal), Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Review Principles, Trial Proceedings

Summary

In federal habeas proceeding, court may consider entire record that was available to the state trial court, even if that information was not also presented to the state appellate courts. Defendants were convicted of murder in California. On direct appeal,…

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Name: Crittenden v. Chappell
Case #: 13-17327
Opinion Date: 10/26/2015
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Equal Protection, Extraordinary Remedies, Habeas Corpus (Federal), Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Trial Proceedings

Summary

In federal habeas proceedings, district court did not err in finding that one of a prosecutor's peremptory strikes in a California capital trial was motivated in substantial part by race in violation of the equal protection clause. Crittenden filed a…

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