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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 6, 2008

Arthur Who?

The California Supreme Court’s approach to comparative juror analysis has vacillated from warm embrace to firm disapproval to a reluctant handshake, writes Elisabeth Semel. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Elisabeth Semel
This article appears on Page 4

      Last week's California Supreme Court opinion in People v. Lenix went unnoticed outside legal circles. In contrast to criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors, who were checking the court's Web site for the release date, most members of the civil trial bar were likely also unaware that a major ruling in the court's Wheeler/Batson juris...

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