James Willie Cochran v. Tommy Herring, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, Cross-Appellee

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• involving testimony from prosecutors that the District Attorney's office had an informal policy of striking jurors based on race
• noting evidence that district attorneys followed an informal policy of striking black jurors because of their race and testimony from the actual prosecutor that race played a factor in the exercise of peremptory challenges
• “When a state’s ‘procedural default rule has been only sporadically invoked, the procedural default no longer bars consideration of the issue in federal court.’”

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