United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's drug conviction is affirmed where the government's five peremptory challenges against Hispanics do not reveal a "pattern" of discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2005
• Published 10/21/2005

Judges

• EDENFIELD, District Judge:, Before BARKETT and HULL, Circuit Judges, and EDENFIELD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Richard Strafer, G. Richard Strafer, P.A., Roy E. Black, Black, Strebnick & Kornspan, Miami, FL, for Appellants., Anne R. Schultz, Emily Smachetri, Dawn Bowen, Miami, FL, for U.S., Stacey Kim Sutton, Carlton Fields, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for ACLU of FL, Amicus Curiae., Lucy A. Dalglish, Reporters Committee, Arlington, VA, for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amicus Curiae.