United States Ninth Circuit

State courts reasonably applied federal law and reasonably interpreted the facts in rejecting prisoner's claim that race motivated the prosecutor's peremptory strike of the only African American from the jury in violation of Equal Protection principles.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2003
• Decided 01/16/2004
• Published 01/16/2004

Judges

• Before FARRIS, TROTT, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald M. Horgan,Riordan & Horgan, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian Alvarez, Deputy Attorney General, California Attorney General, Fresno, CA, for the respondents-appellees.