United States Sixth Circuit

Evidence of racial statistical disparities in federal death penalty cases and statements by US attorney general stating concern about those disparities is sufficient to warrant discovery on federal government's decision to seek the death penalty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/14/2001
• Decided 09/25/2001
• Published 09/25/2001

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Judge;  NELSON, Circuit Judge;  RICE, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathleen Moro Nesi (argued and briefed), Assistant United States Attorney, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Miriam S. Gohara (briefed), Deborah Fins (briefed), NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• William B. Daniel (briefed), Detroit, MI, Andrea D. Lyon (briefed), DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL, Samuel R. Gross (argued and briefed), Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.