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Georgia v. McCollum 505 U.S. 42 (1992) was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a criminal defendant cannot make peremptory challenges based solely on race. The court had previously held in Batson v. Kentucky (1986) that prosecutors cannot make peremptory challenges based on race but didn’t address whether defendants could use them. The court had already ruled in Edmonson v.