One of the groups of residents suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over water delivery problems they claim hampered firefighters in battling the Palisades Fire has removed the judge ...

Attorneys have a certain number of "strikes", or peremptory challenges, where they can remove jury candidates without any explanation. For decades, it was perfectly legal to use these strikes on a ...

This is to allow the parties to exercise their peremptory challenges and select the final jury for trial. The State of Idaho Judicial Branch says a peremptory challenge is the ability for the ...

The defense challenged the makeup of the jury, contending the prosecution’s exercise of a peremptory challenge to remove the lone African American in the jury pool was based on her race.

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

Sommers, Samuel R., and Michael I. Norton. "Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications: Experimental Examination of Peremptory Use and the Batson Challenge Procedure." Law and Human Behavior 31 ...