United States Seventh Circuit

A decision on remand granting defendant a new trial based on a Batson challenge is reversed, his convictions for wire fraud reinstated and affirmed, and the matter remanded for resentencing where: 1) the district court failed to conduct all three steps of the Batson analysis on remand, and instead revisited only step one of the analysis and went no further; and 2) upon review, the record reveals no Batson violation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/24/2007
• Decided 01/31/2008
• Published 01/31/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmond E. Chang (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry Levenstam, Irina Dmitrieva (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.