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noun
An objection to opposing counsel's use of a peremptory challenge to exclude a juror from the jury pool based on criteria that the courts have found disqualifying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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History
After the 1986 case of Batson v. Kentucky, a case of this kind involving the jurors' race.
