AB 87, as amended, Mark Stone. Jurors: peremptory challenge.
Existing law prohibits a party from using a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the prospective juror is biased merely because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or similar grounds.
This bill would also prohibit a party from using a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of ethnic group identification, age, genetic information, or disability.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 231.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure is
2amended to read:
A party shall not use a peremptory challenge to remove
4a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the
5prospective juror is biased merely because of a characteristic listed
P2 1or defined inbegin delete subdivision (a) ofend delete Section 11135 of the Government
2Code, or similar grounds.
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