Nieto v. State (Original)
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed the trial court's denial of his Batson motion, which he filed after all of the black venire members in the strike zone were struck by the State. The First Court of Appeals held that the trial court clearly erred in failing to find that the State's proffered race-neutral reasons were a pretext for racial discrimination. The court held that the record did not demonstrate that the trial court clearly erred by finding that the reasons proffered by the State were facially sufficient to show race-neutral reasons for the strike. Therefore, the court reversed and remanded.
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