STATE v. ZAVALA


259 N.J. Super. 235 (1992)

611 A.2d 1169

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. JUAN ZAVALA AND BARTOLO ZAVALA, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Hudson County.

Decided August 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gina Galanti, Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor, for the State of New Jersey, for the State.

John Elefthrow and Judith Fallon, Assistant Deputy Public Defenders, for defendants.


GROSSI, J.S.C.

This opinion amplifies an oral decision. The matter came before this court on defendant's motion for a mistrial based on an assertion that the prosecution had impermissibly exercised peremptory challenges to remove potential jurors on the basis of race. The issue before the court is whether the use of a disproportionate number of challenges to exclude minorities from the petit jury coupled with the State's admission that it had excluded six of eight...

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