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Batson v. Kentucky , 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the context. [1] Hindustani profanities often contain references to incest and notions of honor. [2] Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending ...
Foster v. Chatman, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the state law doctrine of res judicata does not preclude a Batson challenge against peremptory challenges if new evidence has emerged.
During jury selection, Leesville used two of their three peremptory challenges on black jurors, leaving a panel of twelve with one African-American. Edmonson, citing Batson, requested that the trial court require Leesville give a race-neutral reason for the peremptory challenges to black jurors, but the court refused. The jury found that ...
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Batson is a patronymic surname, derived from Bartholomew. It may refer to: Albert Edwin Batson (d. 1903), American murderer, namesake of the murder ballad "Batson"
A theater in Beverly, Mass., has apologized to the community and its patrons who were offended by remarks made by "Jaws" star Richard Dreyfuss at a recent screening of the film.
The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th-century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...