United States v. Alonzo Houston

How courts have described this case

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• stating that whether a defendant’s prior conviction fell into a certain category was “a question of law, to be decided by the court, not a question of fact”
• noting that if the “stated reason for striking black venire members applies with equal force to white venire members, and the similarly situated white members are not struck, that is evidence tending to prove purposeful discrimination at Batson’s third step.”
• declining to address an additional argument in support of Batson challenge raised for the first time on appeal
• pre- Snyder , refusing to find error in trial court's failure to draw comparisons between jurors that no party asked it to draw
• pre-Snyder, refusing to find error in trial court’s failure to draw comparisons between jurors that no party asked it to draw
• “[I]f the calculated Guidelines range exceeds the statutory maximum penalty for a particular crime, then the statutory maximum becomes the effective Guidelines range.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).