Jarmal Williamson v. United States
DueProcess
Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when defending peremptory jury strikes of protected class jurors?
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW This case involves an important question of federal law in which the Eleventh Circuit has split from several of its sister circuits: Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as suggestive of pretext repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor when defending its peremptory jury strikes, particularly when these misstatements have created a pattern over multiple strikes of jurors in a protected class? i