· 1/25/1977
United States v. Honorable Jon O. Newman
Citations
- 549 F.2d 240
- 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 10356
How courts have described this case
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- rejecting statistical evidence as not probative of extent to which blacks were peremptorily excused within division in which trial was held
- proper peremptory under Swain where prosecutors “ ‘believed that the striking of Black veniremen would lessen the risk of bias in favor of the [black] defendant’”
- “The same considerations apply to a plaintiff or a prosecutor.”
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Judges: Smith, Anderson, Timbers
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