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Second Circuit· 2/23/2006

Messiah v. Duncan

Citations

  • 435 F.3d 186
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 1181
  • 2006 WL 137117

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating a trial judge “need not engage in ‘a talismanic recitation of specific words in order to satisfy Batson’ ” (citation omitted)
  • finding nothing inappropriate about striking a social service professional who might have sympathy for the defendant
  • finding jurorʹs potential sympathy for defendant to be a sufficient basis
  • upholding trial judge’s denial of a Batson challenge based on credibility
  • “[T]he trial judge must simply make clear whether he credits the non-moving party’s race-neutral explanation for striking the relevant panelist.”
  • “A prosecutor may reasonably have qualms about a panelist who fails 9 to pay attention during voir dire.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Jacobs, Cabranes, Sack

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57 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Messiah v. Duncan

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