PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. S127602

45 Cal.Rptr.3d 1 (2006)

38 Cal.4th 1096

136 P.3d 804

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Jay Shawn JOHNSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen B. Bedrick, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and Seth K. Schalit, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


CHIN, J.

Both the United States and the California Constitutions prohibit the exercise of peremptory challenges solely because of group bias. (Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (Batson); People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258, 148 Cal.Rptr. 890,

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