Where a court is ordered to make a finding as to whether a potential juror was dismissed pretextually in a Batson violation, the court must examine the specific reasons for the dismissals and cannot rely on a lack of apparent racial animus to demonstrate that they are not pretextual.The 1st District Appellate Court reversed and remanded a decision by Cook County Circuit Judge Steven James Bernstein.A.S., a 17-year-old black man, was charged on March 23, 2015, with residential burglary of a house belonging to a white woman. …