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THE BATSON CHALLENGE TO THE PROSECUTOR’S EXCLUSION OF A JUROR SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, NEW TRIAL ORDERED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing defendant’s conviction and ordering a new trial, determined defendant’s Batson challenge to the prosecutor’s exclusion of a juror should have been granted:

When providing a race-neutral reason for exercising a peremptory challenge as to S.K., the prosecutor stated that S.K. “is a school counselor and . . . when talking about how she would . . . settle disputes amongst two parties, indicated that she wanted to hear from both sides.” Defense counsel disputed this reason, and argued that the prosecutor did not exercise a peremptory challenge as to prospective white juror N.Z., a school counselor who “indicated that she would need to hear both stories” when working through a conflict between two children at work. The court then acknowledged that the prosecutor did not use a peremptory challenge as to N.Z., and that “[s]he is a white female.” The court denied the defendant’s Batson challenge. * * *

The defendant correctly contends that the court erred in finding that the prosecutor’s race-neutral reason for striking S.K. was not a pretext for discrimination. Here, the record demonstrates that the articulated race-neutral reasons for challenging S.K. were not applied equally to exclude a prospective juror, N.Z., who was not black and could have been challenged by the prosecutor for the same reasons. “Although the uneven application of race-neutral factors does not indicate pretext where the prosecution can articulate other legitimate reasons to justify the use of its challenges”… , the prosecution here failed to do so. Under these circumstances, we conclude that the nonracial bases advanced by the prosecutor for challenging S.K. were pretextual and “give[ ] rise to an inference of discriminatory intent” … . People v Johnson, 2021 NY Slip Op 06627, Second Dept 11-24-21

 

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