Whether Mississippi continues to misapply Batson v. Kentucky

QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether Mississippi continues in the present case to erroneously misapply Batson v. Kentucky by considering the prosecutor’s purported justifications for striking seven of the eight African American prospective jurors presented to it “in isolation,” rather than, as this Court directed it to do in Flowers v. Mississippi, --U.S. ---, ---, 139 S. Ct. 2228, 2250 (2019), considering those strikes “in the context of all the facts and circumstances” that this Court has recognized as relevant to that determination. I. Whether, by upholding these strikes in part on the basis of reasons not articulated by the prosecutor in the trial court the Mississippi Supreme Court has adopted from the Fifth Circuit an erroneous interpretation of Batson that conflicts with not only this Court’s clearly established precedent, but also with decisions of other federal circuit courts of appeal and other state courts of last resort. i