No. 22-5679

Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona

Lower Court: Arizona
Docketed: 2022-09-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2022-12-02
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Must a court reviewing a Batson challenge consider both a substantial disparate impact on minority jurors and the cumulative nature of the State's misstatements of fact?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used its peremptory strikes to improperly remove four minority jurors—two who were Black, one who was Hispanic, and one who was Native American. When Mr. Robinson challenged these strikes pursuant to Batson, the State justified all four of the racially motivated strikes with misstatements of the record. On direct appeal, the Supreme Court of Arizona chose to disregard the significant disparate impact the State’s peremptory strikes had on prospective minority jurors. The court also minimized the State’s misstatements of the record made in support of those strikes. The court did not consider the cumulative nature of these misstatements when determining whether the State was motivated in substantial part by racially discriminatory intent. Must a court reviewing a Batson challenge consider both a substantial disparate impact on minority jurors and the cumulative nature of the State’s misstatements of fact? i

Docket Entries

2022-12-05
Petition DENIED.
2022-11-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
2022-10-25
Brief of respondent Arizona in opposition filed.
2022-09-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 26, 2022)

Attorneys

Arizona
Sarah Elizabeth HeckathorneOffice of the Arizona Attorney General, Respondent
Sarah Elizabeth HeckathorneOffice of the Arizona Attorney General, Respondent
Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson
Kerri L. ChamberlinOffice of the Legal Advocate, Petitioner
Kerri L. ChamberlinOffice of the Legal Advocate, Petitioner