United States Second Circuit

In claiming that the prosecutor exercised a peremptory challenge against a black venire member on the basis of her race, defendant failed to show that the prosecutor's race-neutral explanation was pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2003
• Published 12/16/2003

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, MINER, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Frank Policelli, Utica, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant., Andrew T. Baxter, Assistant United States Attorney, for Glenn T. Suddaby, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, for Appellee.