Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: This Court has noted the importance of the position ir this country trial procedures of the peremptory challenge Holland Illinois 493 474 484 (1990) Ar cxtension ot the Batson rule beyond the realm of racial strikes would effectively cri pple the device peremptory chal lenge. requiring party e able to articulate one the acceptable reasons with 'egard his her peremptory strikes effectively makes them non peremptory simply creating level aSNIBO which does not reach the level of "for cause In the present case race was not an issue, and there no ind ication in the record how many persons in the jury venire were members racial minority In addition, the venire this case was unusually disproportionate with regard t men and women Many counties n Alabama have nou -white populations accounting for t ...