United States Second Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed over plaintiff's claim that the prosecutor improperly exercised peremptory challenges to four African-American jurors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2005
• Published 04/04/2005

Judges

• Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Ware Levitt, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Victor Barall, Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, and Leonard Joblove, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellee.