United States Second Circuit

Defendant's consent to seating of a juror biased against him will not validate the jury panel where consent was obtained in exchange for enpanelling another juror who was of the same race as the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/2000
• Decided 01/07/2002
• Published 01/07/2002

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, F.I. PARKER, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter E. Dellinger, Jeremy Maltby, and Erika R. Frick, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (Elaine R. Jones, Theodore M. Shaw, and Norman J. Chachkin, of counsel) and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Barbara R. Arnwine, Thomas J. Henderson, and Nancy J. Anderson, of counsel)., Norman Redlich and Maritza U.B. Okata, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae American Jewish Congress (Marc D. Stern, of counsel), American Jewish Committee (Jeffrey Sinesky and Kara Stein, of counsel), Anti-Defamation League (Elizabeth J. Coleman and Steven M. Freeman, of counsel), Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (Marcia R. Eisenberg, of counsel), Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Mark J. Pelavin, of counsel), Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Nathan Diament, of counsel), and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (Harold Kalb, of counsel)., Nathan Lewin, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (“COLPA”) (Dennis Rapps, COLPA, and David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of America, of counsel) and Family of Yankel Rosenbaum.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Neuman, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Lemrick Nelson, Jr., Darell L. Paster, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Charles Price., Alan M. Vinegrad, Assistant United States Attorney and Valerie Caproni, Special Assistant United States Attorney, for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, and Jessica Dunsay Silver and Thomas E. Chandler, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, for Bill Lann Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee United States of America.