California Supreme Court April 4, 2002, S096349 (People v. Willis)

Opinion

CHIN, J.

Under existing law, when either party in a criminal case succeeds in showing that the opposing party has improperly exercised peremptory challenges to exclude members of a cognizable group, the court must dismiss all the jurors thus far selected and quash the remaining venire.

(People v. Wheeler

(1978) 22 Cal.3d 258, 282 [148 Cal.Rptr. 890, 583 P.2d 748]

(Wheeler);

see

Batson v.