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· 9/17/1998

Dwayne Coulter v. Jerry Gilmore

Citations

  • 155 F.3d 912
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 22679
  • 1998 WL 635514

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • calling the prosecutions striking of two venirepersons because they failed to disclose that they had been previously charged with crimes \legitimate and nondiscriminatory\
  • calling the prosecutions striking of two venirepersons because they failed to disclose that they had been previously charged with crimes \legitimate and non-discriminatory\
  • rejecting as unpersuasive the defendant’s argument that, if the prosecutor’s stated concern was sincere, he would also have struck a prospective white juror
  • describing prior military service as a facially neutral reason to strike a prospective juror
  • \A facially neutral reason for striking a juror may show discrimination if that reason is invoked only to eliminate African-American prospective jurors and not others who also have that characteristic.\
  • hold- ing that the trial court erred in failing to consider the “totality of the circumstances” when evaluating defendant’s Batson claim

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Judges: Rovner, Wood, Evans

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