Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky

Whether the State’s considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used during jury selection, and now confirmed by newly disclosed evidence of similar notations on a chart used during jury selection at Petitioner’s co -defendant’s trial, and by newly obtained affidavits from three struck prospective Black jurors , violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment under Batson v. Kentucky , 476 U.S. 79 (1986). (II)