Supreme Court of Colorado June 29, 2015, Supreme Court Case 12SC1027 (People v. Wilson)

JUSTICE BOATRIGHT

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

1 1 This case concerns the appropriate resolution of a Batson challenge. The petitioner, Derrick Demetrus Wilson, objected to the prosecutor's use of a peremptory strike to excuse a black veniremember and argued that the strike violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as interpreted in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S.