United States Ninth Circuit

In a habeas corpus case, grant of a habeas petition due to unconstitutionally constituted jury is affirmed where the petitioner made a strong prima facie showing of discriminatory intent in the pattern of the prosecutor's striking of potential jurors and the state offered no non-speculative evidence of non-discriminatory intent in jury selection.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/09/2007
• Decided 09/04/2008
• Published 09/04/2008

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RICHARD A. PAEZ and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and SUZANNE B. CONLON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret E. Maxwell, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for respondent-appellant., Katherine Froyen, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner-appellee.