PEOPLE v. CALVIN
Trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to discharge jury panel on claim that prosecution's use of peremptory challenges to dismiss African-American potential jurors, which prosecutor justified in part by reference to dismissed potential jurors' skeptical attitudes toward criminal justice system, was motivated by discrimination. Such skepticism constituted a plausible basis for challenge and, regardless of its prevalence among African-Americans, was not so exclusively associated with their race or "inherent" that it could be considered a proxy for race that suggested intentional racial discrimination.
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