TORPY, J.
After the defense challenged the state's motivation for striking an allegedly African-American prospective juror, the state acknowledged that it did not have a race-neutral reason for the strike. Instead, the state contested that the prospective juror was African-American. Rather than resolve the factual dispute, the lower court ruled that, because the state attorney did not know the prospective juror's race, a race-neutral explanation was unnecessary. We...
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