United States v. Ricky Peete

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing factors relevant to analysis, including percentage of minority members in jury compared with jury pool, presence of minority members on the jury, pattern of defense strikes
• upholding special condition prohibiting city councilman, who had sought bribes in exchange for his vote, from serving in or seeking elected public office for duration of supervised release
• defendant, a city councilman, who had sought bribes in exchange for his vote, was prohibited as a probation condition from serving in or seeking elected public office
• “There is no requirement that there be an actual effect on interstate commerce – only a realistic probability that an extortion will have an effect on interstate commerce.”
• “Probation restrictions may affect fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of association if the conditions are primarily designed to meet the ends of rehabilitation and protect the public”
• no inference of intentional discrimination existed where roughly one-third of the members of the venire or jury pool were black and one-third of the members of the jury were black

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).