The peremptory striking of a Black juror by a prosecutor who couldn’t provide the trial court with an acceptable race-neutral reason for the dismissal constituted a substantive violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to equal protection, a divided North Carolina ...

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A Columbus County man convicted of murder didn’t provide enough detail in his appeal to prove that prosecutors wrongly excused African-American from his jury, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, affirming a ruling from earlier this year after ...

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  A man who claims that Columbus County prosecutors wrongfully excluded black potential jurors from the jury that convicted him of first-degree murder couldn’t bring enough evidence to convince the North Carolina Court of Appeals that the exclusions were improper ...

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Where the record demonstrates that it was clearly discernable to the trial court and to counsel that five of the 21 prospective jurors questioned on voir dire were African-American, and that two of those prospective jurors were peremptorily excused by ...

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