· 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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