PURKETT, SUPERINTENDENT, FARMINGTON CORRECTIONAL CENTER
v.
ELEM; CULP V. WISMER & BECKER ET AL.; HUDSON V. FIRST FIDELITY BANK, N. A., NEW JERSEY, FKA FIRST NATIONAL STATE BANK; WARREN V. KENTUCKY; KALIARDOS V. GENERAL MOTORS CORP. ET AL.; DOUGLAS V. FIRST SECURITY FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK ET AL.; LITZENBERG V. CARR, JUDGE, CIRCUIT COURT OF MARYLAND, HARFORD COUNTY, ET AL.; PRICE V. RUNYON, POSTMASTER GENERAL; FENELON V. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE; WHITE V. SINGLETARY, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

U.S. | 1995-06-26
Nos. 94-802; No. 94-1460; No. 94-1529; No. 94-1543; No. 94-1574; No. 94-1619; No. 94-8255; No. 94-8313; No. 94-8374; No. 94-8683
515 U.S. 1170 Supreme Court of the United States (1995) Positive Treatment
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    …burden of persuasion never leaves the opponent of the strike to prove purposeful racial discrimination. Melbourne, 679 So. 2d at 764 (footnotes omitted); see also Purkett v. Elem, 514 U.S. 765, 767-68, 115 S.Ct. 1769, 131 L.Ed.2d 834, reh’g denied, 515 U.S. 1170, 115 S.Ct. 2635, 132 L.Ed.2d 874 (1995); Hoskins v. State, 965 So. 2d 1, 7 (Fla.2007). The court in Melbourne explained that genuineness means whether the strike was based on purposeful discrimination. Once the proponent of the strike offers a race…
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    …he legislature has classified persons on the basis of race. The resulting redistricting must be viewed as a racial gerrymander. Our summary affirmance of DeWitt v. Wilson, 856 F. Supp. 1409 (ED Cal. 1994), summarily aff’d in part and dism’d in part, 515 U. S. 1170 (1995), cannot justify exempting intentional race-based redistricting from our well-established Fourteenth Amendment standard. “When we summarily [*1002] affirm, without opinion, the judgment of a three-judge district court we affirm the judgment bu…
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