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PEOPLE v. KNIGHT

Docket Nos. 124996, 125101. Calendar Nos. 9, 10.

701 N.W.2d 715 (2005)

473 Mich. 324

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerome L. KNIGHT, Defendant-Appellant. People of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gregory M. Rice, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 21, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Kym L. Worthy, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief of Research, Training, and Appeals, and Thomas M. Chambers, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Detroit, MI, for the people.

Gerald M. Lorence, Detroit, MI and Gary Supanich, Ann Arbor, MI, for Jerome L. Knight.

Neil J. Leithauser, Royal Oak, MI, for Gregory M. Rice.

CORRIGAN, J.

In these consolidated appeals, we are called upon to clarify our Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), jurisprudence and provide guidance to our lower courts. Specifically, this Court must decide whether the trial court in these cases determined that Batson had been violated; namely, we must discern whether the trial court concluded that the prosecutor exercised peremptory...

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