Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, (1986), in the trial of a female Hispanic New York City police officer when it used peremptory challenges on three of the four female Hispanic prospective jurors and provided pretextual and factually incorrect reasons for its strikes. 2. Whether Ms. Jimenez was improperly prevented from cross-examining and introducing evidence that was crucial to the defense argument that the sole purpose for Ms. Jimenez’s trips to Massachusetts were social in nature rather than part of any narcotics conspiracy. 3. Whether the government’s reference, in its summation, to Ms. Jimenez’s Fifth Amendment rights in order to impeach her trial testimony, violated her due process rights and should have resulted in a mistrial. i