Im Gipper said:
IF tried, I think Batson is going to prevent them from getting a jury with no black people.
Not if you focus your voir dire questions on blacks and white women, which I would do. There is zero the court can do if you come up with a race neutral reason to remove them. Which would not be difficult, since there will only be a handful of blacks on the venire panel to begin with.
I tried over 30 first chair criminal jury trials as a prosecutor and regularly removed my black and younger jurors as a matter of course. Thanks for the tip though.
As a defense attorney, I have never had a sustained Batson challenge and only know of one in the past seven years in my county.