Kentucky in SCOTUS (U. S. Supreme Court) news, as the Court revists Baston V. Kentucky to reverse a death sentence in Louisiana.

The U. S. Supreme Court has reversed a death sentence in the case of Snyder v. Louisiana, 06-10119, approved by the Louisiana Supreme Court, in which the Prosecutor used preemptory challenges to remove Blacks from a jury in order to sit an all White jury, where he drew a parallel to the O J Simpson case, and referred to the case as his ”O.J. Simpson case”, wherein the jury returned a death sentence.

In finding that the Prosecutor violated Baston v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and that the Louisiana Supreme Court was in error in failing to reverse the conviction and sentence, the Supreme Court analyzed the case based on Baston's three step process:

(a) Under Batson’s three-step process for adjudicating claims such as petitioner’s, (1) a defendant must make a prima facie showing that the challenge was based on race; (2) if so, “ ‘the prosecution must offer a race-neutral basis for striking the juror in question’ ”; and (3) “ ‘inlight of the parties’ submissions, the trial court must determine whether the defendant has shown purposeful discrimination.’"

A FREE advise to those who want to keep racism alive in the courthouse, DON'T do it!