Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step of a Batson review," the South Carolina Court of Appeals decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court, and whether the South Carolina Supreme Court improperly allowed that decision to stand by declining to conduct a discretionary review of the Court of Appeals' decision despite the existence of these conflicts.

Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals erred in reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that the trial court failed to conduct a proper Batson analysis