United States Second Circuit

In a murder prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where, as a matter of law, petitioner forfeited his objection to the prosecutor's allegedly racially discriminatory peremptory strike.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2009
• Decided 01/07/2010
• Published 01/07/2010

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Boyle, Law Office of Robert J. Boyle, Esq., New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Blira-Koessler, Assistant District Attorney (Joseph N. Ferdenzi, Assistant District Attorney on the brief), for Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx County, Bronx, NY, for Respondents-Appellees.