State v. Raynor

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment rejecting the defendant's Batson challenge to the prosecutor's peremptory strike of a prospective juror. It held that the incomplete record prevented review of the claimed disparate treatment and alternatively concluded that the trial court did not clearly err in finding no purposeful discrimination. The court declined to require prospective jurors to identify their race before jury selection, leaving related administrative and policy questions for a future Jury Selection Task Force.