Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Jury Selection
Respondent, then age 17, claimed that State improperly used peremptory challenges to strike prospective black jurors during jury selection in his delinquency proceedings. Appellate court had, in earlier opinion, found that the trial court had improperly collapsed the second and third stages of the Batson hearing, e State improperly used peremptory challenges to strike prospective black jurors during jury selection in his delinquency proceedings. In hearing on remand, Respondent sustained his burden to show, as to one juror, that the State’s proffered race-neutral reason was pretextual. (PIERCE, concurring; NEVILLE, specially concurring.)