And western energy companies, like Shell, have had to deal with peremptory decisions, such as that relating to the Sakhalin oil and gas project.
We will not make any peremptory decisions, nor will we take actions that might impact negatively on Rockefeller research in the long term.
In a careful, 167-page opinion, the judge found "race was a significant factor in decisions to exercise peremptory challenges" — the practice of dismissing potential jurors — in death-penalty cases in the state generally and in the county where Mr. Robinson was tried.
The judge who struck down Mr Robinson's sentence found that prosecutors "intentionally used the race of [prospective jurors]…in decisions to exercise peremptory strikes"—that is, to exclude jurors from service not just in the state at the time of Mr Robinson's trial, but at Mr Robinson's trial itself.In this section The nativist millstone Not so easy Just the ten extensions A jury of whose peers?
Among other provisions, death row inmates could present evidence that race "was a significant factor in decisions to exercise peremptory challenges during jury selection".
The court's 1986 Batson v. Kentucky decision requires prosecutors to explain peremptory challenges, if defendants can show a pattern of racial exclusions.
Later court decisions restricted the use of peremptory challenges to strike all men or all women from juries based solely on sex.
That decision recognized an exception to the general rule that peremptory challenges are completely discretionary.
The Batson decision established a three-step process to challenge a peremptory strike as discriminatory.
In Batson v. Kentucky, the 1986 decision that established a new framework for objecting to peremptory challenges, the Supreme Court said that the party making the objection had to raise "an inference of discriminatory purpose".
