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Snyder v. Louisiana 552 U.S. 472 (2008) was a United States Supreme Court case about racial issues in jury selection in death penalty cases. Justice Samuel Alito writing for the 7โ€“2 majority ruled that the prosecutor’s use of peremptory strikes to remove African American jurors violated the Court’s earlier holding in Batson v. Kentucky. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.

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