United States Seventh Circuit

District court's denial of a defendant's habeas petition, alleging that the prosecution violated the Fourteenth Amendment by excluding blacks from the jury on account of their race, is affirmed as the state court's finding that the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges was motivated by legitimate, race-neutral concerns was clearly not unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/02/2009
• Decided 12/21/2009
• Published 12/21/2009

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Freedman, Attorney (argued), Evanston, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Erin O'Connell, Office of the Attorney General (argued), Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.