Supreme Court of California

Where defense counsel exercised peremptory challenges to exclude white prospective jurors, the trial court had discretion to consider and impose remedies or sanctions short of outright dismissal of the entire jury venire; thus, denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the entire venire, and continuation with original remaining venire, with the prosecutor's assent, was not error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2002
• Published 04/04/2002

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Tara M. Mulay, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, William T. Harter, Kenneth C. Byrne, Marc E. Turchin and April S. Rylaarsdam, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.