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  • Snyder, Peremptory Challenges, and Race

    Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 3:18 PM By Nancy Gertner

    [Nancy Gertner] Kenji Yoshino asks whether it is better to eliminate peremptory challenges altogether rather than risk their use in a discriminatory fashion. I understand the problem; Snyder , the Supreme Court's recent peremptory challenge case, dramatized Read More...

  • Caught out?

    Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:51 PM By Diane Marie Amann

    Adam , have you never heard of a catchy lede? Extracting from eye the thumb not put there: I think we agree -- we have a coming together -- that the majority opinion is an unusual appellate application of the Batson doctrine. Dian e Read More...
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  • What Snyder did not say about race

    Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:42 PM By Diane Marie Amann

    by Diane Marie Amann Today the issue of race divided conservatives in America. In Snyder v. Louisiana , the U.S. Supreme Court reversed defendant's capital conviction for murder of his estranged wife on the ground that the exclusion of a single potential Read More...
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