United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant has made a valid prima facie Batson challenge based on prosecutor's failure to show race-neutral grounds for striking five black jurors during his kidnapping trial.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2004
• Decided 06/14/2004
• Published 06/14/2004

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:, Before: KOZINSKI, O'SCANNLAIN and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terri A. Law, Sherman Oaks, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Donald E. De Nicola, Deputy Attorney General, and Stephanie A. Mitchell, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondent-appellee.