United States Eleventh Circuit

Appellate counsel's failure to appeal an adverse ruling on a Batson challenge constituted ineffective assistance where prosecution used 8 of 9 peremptory challenges against black jurors and trial court denied because the final jury had same percentage of blacks as the jury pool.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/12/2001
• Published 10/12/2001

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, WILSON and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Chapman Bell (Court-Appointed), Augusta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Beth Westmoreland, State of Georgia Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.