United States Seventh Circuit

In an armed-robbery case, denial of petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where the state court properly considered and rejected petitioner's Batson challenge to the government's striking of certain African-American members of the jury pool.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/09/2008
• Decided 08/14/2008
• Published 08/14/2008

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, SYKES, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barry Levenstam, Shorge K. Sato (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eric Truett (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.