Cartwright v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Jerrme Cartwright was convicted of attempted battery and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. A divided court of appeals reversed and remanded for a new trial, holding that the trial court improperly denied Cartwright's Batson challenge to the State's peremptory strike of the sole African American prospective juror, as the State's proffered explanations for its peremptory strike were pretextual, resulting in purposeful discrimination in the selection of the jury in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The Supreme Court vacated the court of appeals and affirmed the trial court with respect to Cartwright's Batson claim, holding that Cartwright did not meet his burden of demonstrating that the State had pretextual reasons for striking the prospective juror.
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