The court properly found that the prosecutor's race-and-gender-neutral explanations for peremptorily challenging two venirepersons were not pretextual, where the prosecutor reasonably concluded that one juror would be distracted if sequestered and the other juror lived near the site of the crime for which defendant was being tried. Although these jurors gave assurances of their ability to serve, in each instance there remained a sufficient basis for a nonpretextual peremptory...
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