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6 Louisiana opinions name it 2 courts 1999–2023 1 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Louisiana courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
State v. Widemangreen2 sentences2023However, I am constrained to follow the Louisiana Supreme Court case State v. Wideman, 218 La. 860 , 8671 51 So. 2d 96, 98 ( 1951), wherein a prospective juror' s brother, who was a deputy sheriff, was a witness for the state. 2023However, I am constrained to follow the Louisiana Supreme Court case State v. Wideman, 218 La. 860 , 8671 51 So. 2d 96, 98 ( 1951), wherein a prospective juror' s brother, who was a deputy sheriff, was a witness for the state. | 1 | 1 |
State v. Taylorgreen1 sentence1999See State v. Taylor, 93-2201, p. 34-35 (La.2/28/96), 669 So.2d 364, 381 (no passion or racial prejudice resulted from the fact that defendant was 30-year-old black male and jurors were all white and two murder victims were white). | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Louisiana. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
Snyder v. Louisiana
green
2 sentences2011In Snyder, supra, the African-American defendant was found guilty and sentenced to death by an all-Caucasian jury drawn from a panel containing only five African-Americans, all of whom were struck by the state. 552 U.S. at 475 , 128 S.Ct. 1203 . 2011In Snyder, supra, the African-American defendant was found guilty and sentenced to death by an all-Caucasian jury drawn from a panel containing only five African-Americans, all of whom were struck by the state. 552 U.S. at 475 , 128 S.Ct. 1203 . | 1 | 2011–2011 |
State v. Duncan
green
1 sentence2011In State v. Duncan, 99-2615 (La. 10/16/01), 802 So.2d 533 , the Court found that the Caucasian defendant had failed to establish a prima facie case of discriminatory strikes against African-American venire persons despite his conviction at the hands of a jury that contained eleven Caucasians and one African-American. | 1 | 2011–2011 |
Swain v. Alabama
red
2 sentences2011In Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202 , 85 S.Ct. 824 , 13 L.Ed.2d 759 (1965), the Court considered the issue of whether an African-American defendant was denied equal protection by the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude African-Americans from the petit jury. 2011In Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202 , 85 S.Ct. 824 , 13 L.Ed.2d 759 (1965), the Court considered the issue of whether an African-American defendant was denied equal protection by the prosecutor’s exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude African-Americans from the petit jury. | 1 | 2011–2011 |
State v. Collier
green
1 sentence2011The Court found this ratio especially troubling in light of the jury’s 10-2 guilty verdict: Because only ten votes were needed to convict defendant ... the prosecutor could have assumed, contrary to Bat-son’s admonition that it was unacceptable to do so, that all black jurors would vote on the basis of racial bias and then purposefully discriminated by limiting the number of blacks on the jury to two. 18 Collier, 553 So.2d at 819-20 . 19 | (¡.(The Louisiana Supreme Court has reached the same conclusion. | 1 | 2011–2011 |
In re Agresta
green
2 sentences2004The judge then referred to the parking lot attendant as "n* * * *r" and/or "black mother f* * *er." In assessing the judge's conduct, the Court noted that the verbal abuse and racial slurs were "serious misconduct" but "standing alone might justify a reprimand or censure." Finally, In re Agresta, 64 N.Y.2d 327 , 476 N.E.2d 285 , 486 N.Y.S.2d 886 (1985) involved a judge's comments to two African-American defendants at a sentencing hearing. 2004The judge then referred to the parking lot attendant as "n* * * *r" and/or "black mother f* * *er." In assessing the judge's conduct, the Court noted that the verbal abuse and racial slurs were "serious misconduct" but "standing alone might justify a reprimand or censure." Finally, In re Agresta, 64 N.Y.2d 327 , 476 N.E.2d 285 , 486 N.Y.S.2d 886 (1985) involved a judge's comments to two African-American defendants at a sentencing hearing. | 1 | 2004–2004 |
State v. Wilson
green
1 sentence2001In State v. Wilson, 25,775 (La.App. 2 Cir. 2/23/94), 632 So.2d 861 , the Court found that an African-American defendant violated Batson when he attempted to peremptorily excuse a white prospective juror and failed, upon the state's objection, to provide a race-neutral explanation for the challenge. | 1 | 2001–2001 |
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.