In Batson v. Kentucky, the Court declared that the use of peremptory challenges by prosecutors in criminal cases to excluded jurors on the basis of ________ violated the equal protection clause.

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Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race. The Court ruled that this practice violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case gave rise to the term Batson challenge, an objection to a peremptory challenge based on the standard established by the Supreme Court's decision in this case. Subsequent jurisprudence has resulted in the extension of Batson to civil cases (Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company) and cases where jurors are excluded on the basis of sex (J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B.).

The principle had been established previously by several state courts, including the California Supreme Court in 1978, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1979 and the Florida Supreme Court in 1984.

Explanation:

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Rawls and Nozick agree about which of the following claims: a)sometimes it can be wrong to perform the act that maximizes utility overall b)it is injust for the state to tax people’s earnings in order to provide education for all citizens c)departures from an equal distribution of shares are only permissible if it rases the expectation of the least advantaged member of society d)distributive shares should not be influenced by such chance contingencies as accident of birth and good fortune e)all of the above are correct